Timema poppense

Timema poppense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Phasmida
Family:Timematidae
Genus:Timema
Species: T. poppense
Binomial name
Timema poppense
Vickery & Sandoval, 1999

Timema poppense (originally spelled "poppensis", but this spelling did not match the gender of the genus Timema, and therefore has undergone a mandatory change following ICZN Article 31.2), the "Pope Valley timema", is a species of walkingstick in the family Timematidae.[1] It is found in California, and originally described from a nature reserve in the Pope Valley.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://phasmida.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1203898
  2. ↑ V.R. Vickery, C.P. Sandoval (1999) Two new species of Timema (Phasmatoptera: Timematodea: Timematidae), one parthenogenetic, in California. Journal of Orthoptera Research 8: 45-47.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. The Amateur Entomologist. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8.
  • Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World (2nd ed.). Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2.


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