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Species Didymuria violescens (Leach, 1814)

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Species Didymuria violescens (Leach, 1814)

  • Phasma violescens Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 149 pp. 60 pls [26].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ adult (Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [5] states "There is a specimen in drawer RB4, Curtis collection, NMVM, Melbourne, labelled Diura Gray violascens Lea[ch], presumably by Gray"), Australia (as Australasia).
  • Diura roseipennis Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia in a Series of Monographs. The monograph of the genus Phasma. London : Longman & Co. Part 1 28 pp. 8 pls [27].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
  • Cyphocrania violascens Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [580].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) ZMB 2♂ ♀ adults, Australia.
  • Diura discolor Redtenbacher, J. In Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. & Redtenbacher, J. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Lfg 3: (Schluss: Phasmidae anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophylini, Necrosciini). Leipzig : Verlag Engelmann pp. 339-589 12 pls [382].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults (number unknown), Australia, TAS and Lord Howe Is.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [5]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and mesopterous, female flightless and mesopterous.