By G. O. Bedford
Division of Entomology, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra, A.C.T. Present address: U.N./S.P.C. Rhinoceros Beetle Project, C/- Lowlands Agricultural Experiment Station, Keravat via Rabaul, T.P.N.G.
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 1968, 7: 81-82.
[Manuscript received December 11, 1967.]
Abstract
Specimens of the Phasmatodea, Eurycnema goliath (Gray), Podacanthus typhon Gray and Tropidoderus childrenii (Gray), were reared in the insectary and observations on longevity and fecundity were made. Facultative thelytokous parthenogenesis may exist in the last two species.