Genus Walaphyllium Cumming, Thurman, Youngdale & Tirant, 2020

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• Walaphyllium Cumming R.T., Thurman J.H., Youngdale S., Tirant S.L. 2020. Walaphyllium subgen. nov., the dancing leaf insects from Australia and Papua New Guinea with description of a new species (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae). ZooKeys 939: 1-28 [5].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/5416BF7D-0ED2-4825-859D-690662F3FC20

Introduction

Originally described as a subgenus of Phyllium, raised to genus level following Bank et al. (2021) and Cumming & Le Tirant (2022)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Bank, S., Cumming, R.T., Li, Y., Henze, K., Le Tirant, S. & Bradler, S. 2021. A tree of leaves: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the leaf insects (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae). Communications Biology 4(932): 1-12 [4]

Cumming, R.T. & Le Tirant, S. 2022. Three new genera and one new species of leaf insect from Melanesia (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae). ZooKeys 1110: 151-200

History of changes