Eurycnema

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Eurycnema
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Subfamily: Phasmatinae
Tribe: Phasmatini
Genus: Eurycnema
Audinet-Serville, 1838
Synonyms

Clemacantha Rainbow, 1897

Eurycnema [1] is a genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae and tribe Phasmatini. Species have a known distribution from Australia, New Guinea, Kei islands, Timor, Wetar & Solor. [2]

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Species

Eurycnema includes the following species: [2]

  1. Eurycnema goliath (Gray, 1834)
  2. Eurycnema nigrospinosa Redtenbacher, 1908
  3. Eurycnema osiris (Gray, 1834)
  4. Eurycnema versirubra (Audinet-Serville, 1838) - type species (as Cyphocrania versirubraAudinet-Serville, by subsequent designation [3] )

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References

  1. Audinet-Serville (1838)[1839] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 235.
  2. 1 2 Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 21 May 2021)
  3. Kirby WF (1904) A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1: 501pp.