Clitarchus hookeri

Clitarchus hookeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anareolatae

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Ordo: Phasmatodea Subordo: Verophasmatodea Infraordo: Anareolatae

Familia: Phasmatidae
Subfamilia: Phasmatinae
Tribus: Acanthoxylini
Genus: Clitarchus
Species: Clitarchus hookeri

Name

Clitarchus hookeri (White, 1846: 24)

• Original genus: Phasma
• Type locality: 'New Zealand'

Synonymy

• Clitarchus multidentatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907: 237
• Clitarchus tuberculatus Salmon, 1991: 85
• Original genus: Clitarchus Stål, 1875
• Original status: Valid species
• Primary type: Holotype?
  • Fixation: Designated by way of a general (and somewhat unclear) statement on p. 8 ('Type specimens of all species are in the National Museum, Wellington, unless specified otherwise')
  • Description: [Adult] female
  • Repository: MONZ (As 'National Museum, Wellington') AI.000707
• Type locality: 'Silverstream South Karori'
• ZooBank: D85906BB-4A24-4BCF-9D73-4D707A38350C

References

• Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. 1907: Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, Germany: 181–340. ARK: 13960/t1jh3x09v . Reference page. 
• Buckley, T.R.; Marske, K.; Attanayake, D. 2010: Phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of the New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri (White) support survival in multiple coastal refugia. Journal of biogeography 37(4): 682–695. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02239.x Reference page. 
• Buckley, T.R., Myers, S.S. & Bradler, S. 2014. Revision of the stick insect genus Clitarchus Stål (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae): new synonymies and two new species from northern New Zealand. Zootaxa 3900(4): 451–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.1 Reference page. 
• Salmon, J.T. 1991 The stick insects of New Zealand. Reed, Auckland. Reference page. 
• White, A. 1846. Insects of New Zealand. Pp. 1–24, plates 1–7 in: Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. II. Reptiles, fishes, Crustacea, insects, Mollusca. London: E.W. Janson. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 24, and Pl. 6, fig. 6; original description]