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Species Acrophylla titan (Macleay, 1826)

Titan Stick-insect

  • Phasma titan Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annuloso, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. London : John Murray Vol. 2. [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [454].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown (sex unknown), NSW.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female mesopterous.