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subspecies Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii Walsh, 1864

• Common name(s):  Prairie Walkingstick; Veli's Walkingstick
• Images:

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Northern America: Minnesota to Texas and Louisiana
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (36):
  • Walsh, B.D. 1864. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 3:410   >> Diapheromera velii
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Psyche 9:189   >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:876, pl. 58:5   >> Note: description >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Ent. News 14:329   >> Note: in Texas >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:347   >> Diapheromera velii
  • Shelford. 1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana Insecta Orthoptera 2:354   >> Diapheromera velii
  • Caudell. 1913. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 44:610   >> Diapheromera velii
  • Somes. 1916. Ent. News 27:270   >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Caudell. 1918. Ent. News 29:258   >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 136   >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Hebard. 1925. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 77:44   >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Essig. 1926. Insects of western North America 108 >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Hebard. 1931. Ent. News 42(3):65   >> Note: Races
  • Hebard. 1935. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 87:50   >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Alexander. 1941. University of Colorado Studies 1(3):135 >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Hebard. 1943. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 68:301   >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Arnold. 1973. Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 53:107   >> Note: in Oklahoma >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Sivinski. 1978. Psyche 85:395   >> Note: aggression >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Sivinski. 1980. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 73(5):553 >> Note: mating; predation >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Sivinski. 1983. In Gwynne & G.K. Morris. Orthoptera Mating Systems 147 >> Note: predation, sperm competition >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Vickery & Kevan. 1983. Mem. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. No. 13:301 >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Vickery & Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Part 14. The Grasshoppers, Crickets and Related Insects of Canada and Adjacent Regions 14:59 >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Helfer. 1987. How to know the grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and their allies 24 >> Diapheromera velii
  • Preston-Mafham, K. 1990. Grasshoppers and mantids of the world 61 >> Note: note on mating behaviour >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Sivinski. 1992. Natural History 6:30 >> Note: notes >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Brock. 1992. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 49   >> Note: Rearing >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Preston-Mafham, R. & K. Preston-Mafham. 1993. The encyclopedia of land invertebrate behaviour 59, fig >> Diapheromera veliei
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Note: in checklist of insects of North America >> Diapheromera velii
  • Stidham, J.A. & T.A. Stidham. 2001. Insecta Mundi 15(1):36   >> Note: in checklist of phasmids of Texas >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 48   >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera velii velii
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 123   >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 25   >> Diapheromera velii
  • Stidham, J.A. & T.A. Stidham. 2018. Ent. News 128(1):7   >> Note: Synonymy confirmed >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii
  • López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets. 2018. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:48   >> Note: in checklist of species from Mexico >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 512   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:92   >> Note: Checklist of North American phasmids >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) velii velii
• See species velii for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Nebraska, Platte River
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, Female

• synonym mesillana Scudder, 1901

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