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Acrophylla

Acrophylla is a genus of stick insects in the tribe Phasmatini, erected by George Robert Gray in 1835. Species are found in Sichuan, Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands such as Tasmania and Larat.

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Acrophylla
Acrophylla wuelfingi male specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Tribe: Phasmatini
Genus: Acrophylla
Gray, 1835
Synonyms1
  • Vetilia Redtenbacher, 1908

Acrophylla is a genus of stick insects in the tribe Phasmatini, erected by George Robert Gray in 1835.2 Species are found in Sichuan, Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands such as Tasmania and Larat.1

Species

The Phasmida Species File1 includes:

  1. Acrophylla alta Coupland & Emmott, 2025
  2. Acrophylla bhaskarai Conle & Hennemann, 2018
  3. Acrophylla cookorum Brock & Coupland, 2022
  4. Acrophylla enceladus Gray, 1835
  5. Acrophylla maindroni (Redtenbacher, 1908)
  6. Acrophylla nubilosa Tepper, 1905
  7. Acrophylla sichuanensis Chen & He, 2001
  8. Acrophylla thoon (Stål, 1877)
  9. Acrophylla titan (MacLeay, 1826) - type species (as Phasma titan Macleay)
  10. Acrophylla wuelfingi (Redtenbacher, 1908)
References

References

  1. Phasmida Species File: genus Acrophylla Gray, 1835. (retrieved 31 July 2025)
  2. Gray GR (1835) In: Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, London. 1–48 pp. Available here
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