Acanthoderus
Genus of stick insects
Acanthoderus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Phasmatodea |
Family: | Phasmatidae |
Tribe: | Pachymorphini |
Genus: | Acanthoderus Gray, 1835 |
Species: | A. spinosus |
Binomial name | |
Acanthoderus spinosus (Gray, 1834) |
Acanthoderus[1] is a monotypic genus of stick insects in the tribe Pachymorphini. The single species Acanthoderus spinosus has a known distribution in Australia.[2]
From 1859 until 1875 the similar but unrelated Hoploclonia gecko was placed in the genus Acanthoderus.
References
External links
- Data related to Acanthoderus at Wikispecies