Pseudophasma brachypterum is a species of stick insect found in Brazil, Suriname, Guadeloupe and Peru.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Family: | Pseudophasmatidae |
| Genus: | Pseudophasma |
| Species: | P. brachypterum
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Taxonomy
editThe species now known as Pseudophasma brachypterum was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1763, but under two different names in two different versions of the same work. In Centuria Insectorum Rariorum, it was listed as Gryllus (Mantis) brachypterus, but in the later reprint in Amoenitates Academicæ, the name was changed to Gryllus (Mantis) necydaloides.[2]
References
edit- ^ Joseph Redtenbacher (1906). "Ph. necydaloides L.". Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden Vol. 1. Phasmidae Areolatae (in German). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 122.
- ^ P. E. Bragg (1997). "Biographies of Phasmatologists – 5. Carl Linnaeus" (PDF). Phasmid Studies. 16 (2): 19–24.
External links
edit- "Pseudophasma brachypterum" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- "Species Pseudophasma brachypterum (Linnaeus, 1763)". Phasmida Species File. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
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