Trolicaphyllium
| Trolicaphyllium | |
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| Trolicaphyllium sarrameaense female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Family: | Phylliidae |
| Genus: | Trolicaphyllium Cumming, Le Tirant & Büscher, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Trolicaphyllium brachysoma (Sharp, 1898)
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Trolicaphyllium is a genus of leaf insect in the order Phasmatodea found on New Caledonia and the small surrounding islands.[1][2] The genus was described by Cumming, Le Tirant, & Büscher in 2021.[3] Prior to 2021, every molecular review involving Chitoniscus Stål, 1875 sensu lato involving samples from Fiji and New Caledonia revealed polyphyly. Therefore in 2021, the morphology from these two distinct clades was extensively reviewed[3]. Morphological results agree with all previously published molecular studies and therefore Trolicaphyllium was erected to accommodate the former Chitoniscus sensu lato species restricted to New Caledonia, leaving the type species Chitoniscus lobiventris (Blanchard, 1853) and all other Fijian species within Chitoniscus sensu stricto.[4]
Species
[edit]- Trolicaphyllium brachysoma (Sharp, 1898) - type species
- Trolicaphyllium erosum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
- Trolicaphyllium sarrameaense (Grösser, 2008)
References
[edit]- ^ "species Trolicaphyllium brachysoma (Sharp, 1898): Phasmida Species File". phasmida.archive.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "Genus Trolicaphyllium". iNaturalist. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b Cumming, R. T.; Tirant, S. L.; Büscher, T. H. (2021-08-05). "Resolving a century-old case of generic mistaken identity: polyphyly of Chitoniscus sensu lato resolved with the description of the endemic New Caledonia Trolicaphyllium gen. nov. (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae)". ZooKeys (1055): 1–41. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1055....1C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1055.66796. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 8360878. PMID 34393570.
- ^ Cumming, Royce T.; Bank, Sarah; Tirant, Stephane Le; Bradler, Sven (19 February 2020). "Notes on the leaf insects of the genus Phyllium of Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, including the description of two new species with purple coxae (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae)". ZooKeys. 913: 89–126. doi:10.3897/zookeys.913.49044. ISSN 1313-2970. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
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