Biology:Timema poppense

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Short description: Species of insect

Timema poppense
Timema poppense camouflaged on its host, Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), California.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Timematidae
Genus: Timema
Species:
T. poppense
Binomial name
Timema poppense
Vickery & Sandoval, 1999

Timema poppense (originally spelled "poppensis", but this spelling did not match the gender of the genus Timema, and therefore has undergone a mandatory change following ICZN Article 31.2), the "Pope Valley timema", is a species of walkingstick in the family Timematidae.[1] It is found in California , and originally described from a nature reserve in the Pope Valley.[2]

References

  1. "Species Timema poppense Vickery & Sandoval, 1999: Phasmida Species File". http://phasmida.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1203898. 
  2. V.R. Vickery, C.P. Sandoval (1999) Two new species of Timema (Phasmatoptera: Timematodea: Timematidae), one parthenogenetic, in California. Journal of Orthoptera Research 8: 45-47.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. 
  • Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. The Amateur Entomologist. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8. 
  • Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World (2nd ed.). Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10698151 entry