Published May 4, 2023 | Version v1
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Virgasia simplex

  • 1. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K. pauldbrock @ btinternet. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0590 - 0414; Website: http: // Phasmida. SpeciesFile. org

Description

simplex Redtenbacher, 1906: 26 [Antongilia]

Probable PLTs’, ♁ & 2 ♀♀: Madagascar, Antongil, ex. coll. Br. v. W. 1899.

Comment: These are labelled in the ETHZ collection as Antongila laciniata. The lectotype is in NMW (No. 9), paralectotypes in RBINS, MNHN, NMW, ZMUH and ZIN.

Valid name: Virgasia simplex (Redtenbacher, 1906)

Notes

Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., Conle, Oskar V. & Brock, Paul D., 2023, The types of Phasmatodea (= Phasmida) deposited in the Eidgenössisches Technisches Hochschulzentrum, Zürich, Switzerland (ETHZ), pp. 176-188 in Zootaxa 5278 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/7894794

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Redtenbacher
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Phasmida
Family
Bacillidae
Genus
Virgasia
Species
simplex
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Virgasia simplex (Redtenbacher, 1906) sec. Hennemann, Conle & Brock, 2023

References

  • Redtenbacher, J. (1906) Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. I. Phasmidae Areolatae. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 180 pp., 6 pls.