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Species Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877)

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Species Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877)

Plain Stick-insect

  • Carausius mercurius Stål, C. 1877. Espèces nouvelles de Phasmides. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20: lxii-lxviii [lxii].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, Rockhampton, QLD.
    Type locality references:
    Sjöstedt, Y. 1933. Orthopterentypen im Naturhistonschen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. 7. Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 25A(16): 1-10 [4].
  • Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. In Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. & Redtenbacher, J. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Lfg 2: Phasmidae anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Leipzig : Verlag Engelmann 181-338 pp. pls vii-xv [273].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) NHMW ♀ adult, Rockhampton, QLD; ZMH 3♀, Rockhampton, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Brock, P.D. 2000. Studies on Australian stick-insects of the family Heteronemiidae, subfamily Lonchodinae, including the description of a new genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research 9: 51-55

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore.