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Species Eurycnema goliath (Gray, 1834)

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Species Eurycnema goliath (Gray, 1834)

  • Phasma (Diura) goliath Gray, G.R. 1834. Descriptions of several species of Australian Phasmata. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 45-46 [45].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown, Australia.
  • Phasma (Diura) acheron Gray, G.R. 1834. Descriptions of several species of Australian Phasmata. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 45-46 [46].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown juv. (sex unknown), Australia (as New Holland).
  • Cyphocrania versifasciata Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret i-xviii, 1-776, Atlas pls 1-14. [dated 1838] [235].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, unknown.
  • Cyphocrania versirubra Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret i-xviii, 1-776, Atlas pls 1-14. [dated 1838] [235].
    Type data:
     Holotype OUM 630 ♀ adult, unknown, labelled Brés [Brazil] in error.
  • Cyphocrania herculeana Charpentier, T. 1845. Orthoptera descripta et depicta. Leipzig : Lipsiae ii, vi 120 pp. 60 pls [1] [incorrect subsequent spelling, as Cyphocrania].
    Type data:
     Holotype ZMB ♀ adult, Java.
  • Clemacantha regale Rainbow, W.J. 1897. Description of two new Australian Phasmas, together with a synopsis of the Phasmidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 3(2): 34-37 [34].
    Type data:
     Holotype AM ♀ adult, Narrabri, NSW.
  • Cyphocrana hanitschi Sharp, D. 1898. Account of the Phasmidae, with notes on the eggs. 75-94 pls vii-ix in Willey, A. (ed.). Zoological Results, Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere collected during 1895, 1896 and 1897. Cambridge : University Press [89] [incorrect subsequent spelling, as Cyphocrania].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, ?Java.
  • Eurycnema magnifica Kirby, 1904.
  • Eurycnema viridissima Kirby, W.F. 1904. Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) South Kensington, with descriptions of New Species. Nos I & II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13: 372-377, 429-449 [440].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults, North Australia and Moreton Bay, QLD.

 

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. [6]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland
    • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and mesopterous, female flightless and mesopterous.

 

General References

Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [578] (as Cyphocrania, emendation of Cyphocrana Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828)