Pseudophasma brachypterum

Pseudophasma brachypterum is a species of stick insect found in Brazil, Suriname, Guadeloupe and Peru.[1]

Pseudophasma brachypterum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Pseudophasmatidae
Genus: Pseudophasma
Species:
P. brachypterum
Binomial name
Pseudophasma brachypterum
Synonyms
  • Phasma bioculata Stoll, 1813
  • Gryllus (Mantis) necydaloides Linnaeus, 1763

Taxonomy

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The species now known as Pseudophasma brachypterum was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1763, but under two different names in two different versions of the same work. In Centuria Insectorum Rariorum, it was listed as Gryllus (Mantis) brachypterus, but in the later reprint in Amoenitates Academicæ, the name was changed to Gryllus (Mantis) necydaloides.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Joseph Redtenbacher (1906). "Ph. necydaloides L.". Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden Vol. 1. Phasmidae Areolatae (in German). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 122.
  2. ^ P. E. Bragg (1997). "Biographies of Phasmatologists – 5. Carl Linnaeus" (PDF). Phasmid Studies. 16 (2): 19–24.
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