Acanthoxyla

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Acanthoxyla
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A prickly green stick insect (Acanthoxyla prasina) seen in Fairfield, Otago in 2012
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Subfamily: Phasmatinae
Genus: Acanthoxyla
Uvarov 1955

Acanthoxyla [1] is a genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae (tribe Acanthoxylini). [1] All the individuals of the genus are female and reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis. [2] However, a male Acanthoxyla inermis was recently discovered in the UK, probably the result of chromosome loss. [3] The genus is the result of interspecific hybridisation [4] [5] resulting in some triploid [6] lineages and some diploid [7] lineages. The genus is endemic to New Zealand, [8] but some species have been accidentally introduced elsewhere. The genus name Acanthoxyla translates from Greek as prickly stick (acantho = thorn; xyla = wood).

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Species

The Catalogue of Life lists: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. (eds) (2011). " Acanthoxyla ". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, UK. Accessed 24 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Acanthoxyla Uvarov". Landcare Research. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Brock, Paul (2018). "Missing stickman found: the first male of the parthenogenetic New Zealand Phasmid genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov, 1944 discovered in the United Kingdom". Atropos (60): 16–23.
  4. ↑ Morgan-Richards, Mary; Trewick, Steven A. (2005). "Hybrid origin of a parthenogenetic genus?" . Molecular Ecology. 14 (7): 2133–2142. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02575.x. PMID   15910332. S2CID   29709325.
  5. ↑ Morgan-Richards, Mary; Hills, Simon F. K.; Biggs, Patrick J.; Trewick, Steven A. (2016). Budak, Hikmet (ed.). "Sticky Genomes: Using NGS Evidence to Test Hybrid Speciation Hypotheses". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0154911. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154911 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   4871368 . PMID   27187689.
  6. ↑ Buckley, Thomas R.; Attanayake, Dilini; Park, Duckchul; Ravindran, Shanthinie; Jewell, Tony R.; Normark, Benjamin B. (2008). "Investigating hybridization in the parthenogenetic New Zealand stick insect Acanthoxyla (Phasmatodea) using single-copy nuclear loci" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48 (1): 335–349. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.016. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   18367411.
  7. ↑ Myers, Shelley S.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2013). Boomsma, Jacobus; Brad, Sean (eds.). "Multiple lines of evidence suggest mosaic polyploidy in the hybrid parthenogenetic stick insect lineage Acanthoxyla" . Insect Conservation and Diversity. 6 (4): 537–548. doi:10.1111/icad.12008. S2CID   59932320.
  8. ↑ Salmon, John (1991). The Stick Insects of New Zealand. Singapore: Reed. ISBN   0790002116.
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