''Spinohirasea'' is currently a
monotypic 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 Zompro in 2002. To date (2022) the sole species has been recorded from Vietnam.
Species
The ''Phasmida Species File'' currently only includes ''Spinohirasea bengalensis''
(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907): with the genus name described as ''S. crassithorax''
Zompro, 2002 and the species name from ''Menexenus bengalensis'', described by
Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl
Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl (13 June 1823, Bern – 24 August 1914, Kirchdorf) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera, and a botanist.
Von Wattenwyl was a postmaster. He described many new taxa of Orthoptera.
His collection is ...
. The type specimens were found in Dy Thuong village,
Hà Tĩnh province.
[ This species can be kept in culture, fed by bramble, raspberry, '']Hypericum
''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hype ...
'' or ivy
''Hedera'', commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and ...
.PSG 272 ''Spinohirasea bengalensis''
Phasmid Study Group: species information.
Gallery
Spinohirasea bengalensis - eggs.jpg, eggs
Spinohirasea bengalensis elder nymph.jpg, nymph
Spinohirasea bengalensis adult male.jpg, adult male
Spinohirasea bengalensis female side view.jpg, adult female
References
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Phasmatodea genera
Phasmatodea of Asia
Lonchodidae
Monotypic insect genera