Jump to content

Calvisia kneubuehleri

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Picasso stick insect)

Calvisia kneubuehleri
Specimen from Cát Tiên National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Genus: Calvisia
Subgenus: Calvisia
Species:
C. kneubuehleri
Binomial name
Calvisia kneubuehleri
Bresseel & Constant, 2017

Calvisia kneubuehleri is a species of stick insects in the tribe Necrosciini: called the Picasso stick insect by the authors.[1] This species was found in the seasonal tropical forests of the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve (type locality), which includes Cát Tiên National Park, Vietnam.[2]

Then undescribed, the species (female) has been photographed by the Russian ornithologists Andrei V. Zinoviev 13/04/2001 in Ma Da Enterprise, Dong Nai Province.

Female of Calvisia kneubuehleri, photographed by Andrei V. Zinoviev in Ma Da Enterprise, Dong Nai Province on 13/04/2001.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Bresseel J, Constant J (2017) The Picasso stick insect. A striking new species of Calvisia from Vietnam with notes on captive breeding and new methods for incubation of eggs (Phasmida: Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 46: 1-18.
  2. ^ Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 20 September 2019
[edit]