Giant stick insect
As a giant stick insects , including giant stick insects , are commonly different, partly unrelated closer to each other, very large, rod-like stick insects - species referred. In most of these species, the females reach a body length of more than 20 cm. The name is often used as a collective name, but in the absence of other names it can also be found as a possible German name ( trivial name ) for individual species or genera .
In particular, many representatives of the following genera are often addressed as a giant stick insects: Achrioptera , Acrophylla , Anichale , Bactrododema , Cladomorphus , Ctenomorpha , Eurycnema , Hermarchus , Macrophasma , Nesiophasma , Otocrania , Pharnacia , Phobaeticus (among other Phobaeticus serratipes ) Phryganistria and Tirachoidea . For some species, unique trivial names have emerged from supplementary terms. Thus Eurycnema goliath as Australian giant stick insect called and Archrioptera manga is colloquially called Turquoise giant stick insect. As with all stick insects mentioned, stick-shaped ghosts, the misleading term stick insects is also found here, in this case as giant stick insects (see also the naming of the ghosts ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Records on the Phasmatodea page from Oskar V. Conle and Frank H. Hennemann
- ↑ Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum - keeping and breeding of insects
- ↑ Oliver Zompro : Ctenomorphodes sp. - a winged giant stick insect , Arthropoda 17 (1) April 2009, pp. 41-43 Sungaya-Verlag Kiel, ISSN 0943-7274