Diapheromera dentricus (Stål, 1875)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26(1333), 775–809. Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32571#page/903/mode/1up
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Phasmida
- family
- Diapheromeridae
- genus
- Megaphasma
- species
- Megaphasma denticrus
Name
- Homonyms
- Diapheromera dentricus (Stål, 1875)
Bibliographic References
- Beamer. 1932. The giant walking-stick (Megaphasma dentricus (Stal.) found in Kansas. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 5(1):28
- Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America 142
- Brock. 1999. The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. Amateur Entomologist, Amateur Entomologists Society (Amateur Entomologist) 26:19, pl.
- Caudell. 1903. Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.) 26(1333):780
- Caudell. 1903. The Phasmidae, or Walkingsticks, of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.) 26:878
- Evans. 2008. National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders of North America, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, New York 106, fig
- Maginnis, T.L., Cool & Muniz. 2008. Some Observations on the Mating Behaviour of The Giant Walking Stick, Megaphasma dentricus (Orthoptera: Phasmidae). Texas Journal of Science 60(1):57
- Stark & Lentz. 1986. Morphology of the egg capsule in Megaphasma dentricus (Phasmatodea: Heteronemiidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 59(2):398
- Tinkham. 1948. Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the Orthopteran zones and faunae of Midwestern North America. American Midland Naturalist 40(3):560
- Zompro. 2001. A generic revision of the insect order Phasmatodea: The New World genera of the stick insect subfamily Diapheromeridae: Diapheromerinae = Heteronemiidae Heteronemiinae sensu Bradley & Galil, 1977. Revue suisse de Zoologie 108(1):212