Acrophylla titan (Macleay, 1826)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
SPECIES: Published in
Macleay, W.S. (1826) Annuloso, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. In Narrative of a survey of the Intertropical, and Western Coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822. With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history. J. Murray, London. Vol. 2, pp. 438–469, Table B. [1827] Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/228738#page/476/mode/1up

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Arthropoda: class
Insecta: order
Phasmida: family
Phasmatidae: genus
Acrophylla: species
Acrophylla titan

Name

Synonyms: Acrophylla titanus; Cyphocrania titan (Macleay, 1826); Diura titan (Macleay, 1826); Phasma titan Macleay, 1826; Vetilia titan (Macleay, 1826)
Homonyms: Acrophylla titan (Macleay, 1826)
Common names: Titan Stick Insect in English; Titan Stick-insect in English; Titan Stick-insect in English

Bibliographic References

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Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects, Chudleigh Publishing, Ilford 5
Bedford. 1978. Biology and ecology of the Phasmatodea. Annual Review of Entomology 23:136
Brewster, M.N., A.A. Brewster & Crouch. 1920. Family Phasmidæ (Leaf and Stick Insects.). Life Stories of Australian Insects, Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney 38
Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography, Zootaxa, Magnolia Press, Auckland 1570:72
Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood vi, 95, figs., 164
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Brock. 1994. Giant stick-insects in Australia: Notes on Acrophylla titan (Macleay). Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologist’s Society 53:61
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Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Extreme convergence in stick insect evolution: phylogenetic placement of the Lord Howe Island tree lobster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Proc. R. Soc. B.) 276:1058
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Burmeister. 1840. Audinet-Serville, historie naturelle des Orthopteres. Paris. 1839. 8 verglichen mit H. Burmeister, Handbuch d. Entomologie II. Bd. 2. Abth., 1. Halfte, (vulgo Orthoptera). Berlin 1838. 8. Germar’s Zeitschrift für die Entomologie 2:38
Carlberg. 1987. Evolutionary and ecological aspects on ovarian diversity in Phasmida (Insecta). Zool. Jb. Syst. 114:48
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China & Riley. 1962. Opinion 641. Addition of certain generic and specific names in the family Phasmatidae (Insecta, Phasmatodea) to the official lists and indexes. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 19(5):19
Craddock. 1972. Chromosonal diversity in the Australian Phasmatodea. Australian Journal of Zoology (Australian J. Zool.) 20:448
Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia, in a series of monographs. Part 1 containing the monograph of the genus Phasma, G.R. Gray, also sold at Longman & Co., London 19