''Eurycnema'' is a genus of

stick insects 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 ...

in the family

Phasmatidae The Phasmatidae are a family of the stick insects ( order Phasmatodea). They belong to the superfamily Anareolatae of suborder Verophasmatodea. Like many of their relatives, the Phasmatidae are capable of regenerating limbs and commonly repr ...

and tribe

Phasmatini PhasmatiniLeach (1815) In Brewster, D. ''The Edinburgh Encyclopedia'' 9: 119. is a tribe of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. There are more than 40 described species, found in Australasia, Asia and possibly Brazil. Genera These genera b ...

. Species have a known distribution from

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologica ...

and Southeast Asia.Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 21 May 2021)
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Species

''Eurycnema'' includes the following species: # ''

Eurycnema goliath ''Eurycnema goliath'', commonly known as the goliath stick insect, or the regal stick insect, is a large species of stick insect in the family Phasmatidae, endemic to Australia and considered one of the largest species of stick insects in the cou ...

'' (Gray, 1834) # '' Eurycnema nigrospinosa'' Redtenbacher, 1908 # ''

Eurycnema osiris ''Eurycnema'' is a genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae and tribe Phasmatini. Species have a known distribution from Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the ...

'' (Gray, 1834) # '' Eurycnema versirubra'' (Audinet-Serville, 1838) - type species (as ''Cyphocrania versirubra'' Audinet-Serville, by subsequent designationKirby WF (1904) ''A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae)'' 1: 501pp.)

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10491629 Phasmatodea genera Phasmatidae Phasmatodea of Asia