Genus Eurycantha Boisduval, 1835

Eurycantha sifia

Distribution

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Extralimital distribution: New Guinea, see Gunther, K. (1931). Beitrage zur Systematik und Geschichte der Phasmoidenfauna Ozeaniens. Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin 17(6): 753-835 [769].

References:

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.
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.
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.
Rainbow, W.J. (1897). Catalogue of the described Phasmidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 3(2), 37-44. [Note that he made a mistake re Extatosoma popa and E. tiaratum according to 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. .]
Sharp, D. (1898). Account of the Phasmidae, with notes on the eggs. pp. 75-94 pls vii-ix in Willey, A. (ed.) Zoological Results, Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere, collected during 1895, 1896 and 1897. Cambridge: University Press [I actually have the text of this one, and plates VII and VIII, but I'm looking for plate IX which was missing from the reprint I photocopied. From the number of figures, I suspect it was on a fold-out sheet which had been lost at an earlier date.]
Tepper, J.G.O. (1902). List of the Described Genera and Species of the Australian and Polynesian Phasmidæ (Spectre-Insects). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26: 278-287.
Tepper, J.G.O. (1903). Notes and remarks on the described genera and species of Australian and Polynesian Phasmidæ or ``spectre insects''. Victorian Naturalist, 19: 138-142.
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.