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Body large, shining, smooth except for pleurae which are smooth,
tuberculate, or weakly spined; hind femur of male greatly enlarged,
heavily spined; wings lacking; front femur straight at base; abdominal
segments without lateral extensions. Head prognathous; eyes large;
ocelli absent; antennae simple, filiform; pronotum quadrate; mesonotum
elongate-rectangular; mesopleuron tuberculate; metapleuron tuberculate
(female), weakly spined (male). Dorsal carinae of femora (with exception
of hind ones of male) feebly developed, smooth or irregular. Male hind
femur with strong, basally serrate, dorsal, lateral carinae; enlarged
teeth borne by ventroexternal carina; ventrolateral carinae present.
Arolia moderately large. Apical tergum of male truncate or nearly so,
of female short, unspecialized; female sub-genital plate ventrad of
apical three terga and prolonged posterior to apical tergum.
(Gurney, 1947)
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Only one Australian species is known.
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area, within this genus.
References
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Balderson, J., Rentz,
D.C.F. and Roach, A.M.E. (1998).
in
Houston, W.K.K. & Wells, A. (1998) (eds)
Zoological Catalogue of Australia.
Vol. 23.
Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera,
Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia (ISBN 0643 06035 9).
pp. 347 - 376.
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Bradley, J.C., and Galil, B.S. (1977).
The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies
and tribes.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington,
79(2): 176-208.
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Gurney, A.B. (1947).
Notes on some remarkable Australasian walkingsticks, including a
synopsis of the Genus Extatosoma (Orthoptera: Phasmatidae).
Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 40(3): 373-396.
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Vickery, V.R. (1983).
Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida,
Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO
Australian Division of Entomology Technical Paper, No. 20, 15 pp.
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