Pink-winged phasma
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| Genus: | Podacanthus
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| Species: | Typhon
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| Podacanthus typhon Gray, (1835)[1]
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The pink-winged phasma (Podacanthus typhon) is found in Australia along with three other species in the genus typhon.
Range
This species is endemic to Australia. Specifically it is found along the SE coast, in the Murray-Darling basin, New South Wales.[2]
Identification
The pink-winged phasma's body is primarily green, it has a purple-red upper-abdomen along with blue wing joints and pink wings. The meso thorax is reduced in size and has small spines, from the meso thorax goes the largely wide wing-set. Underneath the wing-set are spines that cover a small part of the second thorax and abdomen. The legs are reddish pink. P. typhon is a small stick insect compared with the titan stick insect, its size is comparable to the children's stick insect it reaches a length of about 110cm. [3]
References
- Balderson, J., Rentz, D.C.F. and Roach, A.M.E. (1998). in Houston, W.K.K. & Wells, A. (1998) (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia (ISBN 0643 06035 9). pp. 347 - 376.
- Bedford, G.O. & Chinnick, L.J. (1966). Conspicuous displays in two species of Australian stick insects. Anim. Behav., 14: 518-521
- Bedford, G.O. (1968). Notes on the biology of some Australian stick insects (Phasmatodea), Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 7: 81-82.
- Bedford, G.O. (1978). Biology and ecology of the Phasmatodea. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 23: 125-149
- Campbell, K. G., Hadlington, P., 1967. The biology of the three species of phasmatids which occur in plague numbers in forests of south eastern Australia. Forestry Commission NSW Res. Note No. 20, 38 pp.
- Clark, J.T. (1976). The eggs of stick insects (Phasmida): a review with descriptions of the eggs of eleven species. Syst. Ent. 1: 95-105.
- Gray, G.R. (1833). The Entomology of Australia in a Series of Monographs. Part 1. The monograph of the genus Phasma. London: Longman & Co. 28 pp. 8 pls.
- Gray, G.R. (1835). ‘Synopsis of the Species of Insects Belonging to the Family of Phasmidae.’ 48pp. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman: London.)
- Key, K.H.L. (1970). Phasmatodea (Stick-insects). pp. 394-404 in CSIRO (ed.) The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, Vol. 1, 1st Edn.
- Musgrave, A. (1922). Stick and Leaf Insects, Australian Museum Magazine, October, 1922, pp. 171-181.
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