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Timema poppense

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Timema poppense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
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

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  1. ^ "Species Timema poppense Vickery & Sandoval, 1999: Phasmida Species File".
  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

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  • 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. Vol. 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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