''Phamartes'' is a genus of Asian
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 ...
identified by J Bresseel and J Constant in 2013.
[Bresseel J, Constant J (2013) ''Zootaxa'' 3741(1): 141-150.] As of 2022, species have only been recorded as originating from Vietnam.
The genus was named after the Prof. Thai Hong Pham of th
Vietnam National Museum of Nature(
Bảo tàng Thiên nhiên Việt Nam).
Description
Bresseel and Constant noted that this genus is closely related to ''
Oxyartes
Oxyartes (Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎧𐏁𐎫𐎼, Greek: ''Ὀξυάρτης'', in fa, وخشارد ("Vaxš-ard"), from an unattested form in an Old Iranian language: ''*Huxšaθra-'') was a Sogdian or Bactrian nobleman of Bactria, father o ...
'', but is "easily distinguishable by the presence of fully developed ''alae,'' or rounded apical
tegmina, possibly with protruding humps (whereas all known ''Oxyartes'' species have only tiny wing buds), the head armature, and the split and asymmetrical anal segment, a character previously unknown in
Necrosciinae
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 ...
".
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Species
The ''Phasmida Species File''[ currently includes:
# '' Phamartes coronatus'' Bresseel & Constant, 2013 - type species - locality Bạch Mã National Park
# '' Phamartes elongatus'' Li & Bu, 2019 - locality Cát Tiên National Park
]
References
External links
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Phasmatodea genera
Phasmatodea of Asia
Lonchodidae