''Cheniphasma'' is a genus of
stick insect
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as ...
s in the tribe
Necrosciini
Necrosciinae is a subfamily of the stick insect family Lonchodidae, with its greatest diversity in South-East Asia.
The subfamilies Necrosciinae and Lonchodinae, formerly part of Diapheromeridae, were determined to make up a separate family and ...
, erected by G.W.C. Ho in 2012.
[Ho GWC (2012) ''Entomol. Fennica'' 23: 217]
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/ref> Species have been recorded from China (Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
) and Vietnam.[
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Species
The ''Phasmida Species File'' lists:
# '' Cheniphasma fruhstorferi'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) (synonym ''Menexenus fruhstorferi'' from Vietnam)
# '' Cheniphasma granulatum'' Ho, 2013
# '' Cheniphasma parvidentatum'' Ho, 2020
# '' Cheniphasma serrifemoralis'' Ho, 2012 - type species
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Phasmatodea genera
Phasmatodea of Asia
Lonchodidae