Species

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877)

Plain Stick-insect

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877): copyright Braxton Jones. male: head & thorax, lateral & dorsal views. (Otu).

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877): copyright QM. male: head, lateral & dorsal views. (Otu).

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877): copyright QM. male: end of abdomen, lateral & dorsal views. (Otu).

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877): copyright Braxton Jones. male: end of abdomen, ventral view. (Otu).

CollectionObject 1557247; cd679769-be0f-441c-9884-0c3d4493b477: copyright NHRS, Stockholm. female, lateral view of Carausius mercurius (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557247; cd679769-be0f-441c-9884-0c3d4493b477: copyright NHRS, Stockholm. female: head and thorax, lateral view of Carausius mercurius (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557247; cd679769-be0f-441c-9884-0c3d4493b477: copyright NHRS, Stockholm. female: end of abdomen, lateral view of Carausius mercurius (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557247; cd679769-be0f-441c-9884-0c3d4493b477: copyright NHRS, Stockholm. female, dorsal view of Carausius mercurius (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557248; a84b1827-9e0c-46a8-8206-4e4342606ced, NMW 519: copyright NMW, Vienna. female of synonym Carausius australicus (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557248; a84b1827-9e0c-46a8-8206-4e4342606ced, NMW 519: copyright NMW, Vienna. female, lateral view of synonym Carausius australicus (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557249; NMW 519', bb8b4774-fcfd-4739-8fea-02f5aa7c5ed1: copyright NMW, Vienna. female of synonym Carausius australicus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557250; 302a083a-774c-4f5c-9d11-d9283a86b667: copyright ZMUH, Hamburg. female of synonym Carausius australicus (paralectotypes). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557250; 302a083a-774c-4f5c-9d11-d9283a86b667: copyright ZMUH, Hamburg. female: head and thorax, lateral view of synonym Carausius australicus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1557250; 302a083a-774c-4f5c-9d11-d9283a86b667: copyright ZMUH, Hamburg. female: end of abdomen, lateral view of synonym Carausius australicus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (24)

Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877: 62. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification
Holotype; female; cd679769-be0f-441c-9884-0c3d4493b477; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland; Rockhampton
Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877 in Kirby, 1904: 320. Phylogeny or classification
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Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907: 274. Phylogeny or classification; Image or description
Lectotype; female; NMW 519; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Australia: Queensland; Rockhampton
Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877 in Sjöstedt, 1933: 4. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 in Weidner, 1966: 229. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 in Vickery, 1983: 4. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877 in Balderson, Rentz & Roach, 1998: 364. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 in Balderson, Rentz & Roach, 1998: 364. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 in Brock, 1998: 16. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Brock, 2000: 52.
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Brock, 2000: 52. Phylogeny or classification; Image or description
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Zompro, 2002: 182.
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 57.
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 57. Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007: 69.
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007: 69. Phylogeny or classification
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Brock & Hasenpusch, 2009: 34, 79, figs. 160. Image or description
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Velonà, Brock, Hasenpusch & Mantovani, 2015: 458. Specimen or distribution
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Rudolf & Brock, 2017: e.T78789295A78792052. Ecological data; Specimen or distribution
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Williams, 2020: 127. Specimen or distribution
Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Brock & Büscher, 2022: 428, 524, fig. Image or description; Specimen or distribution
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Jones, Brock, Mantovani, Beasley-Hall, Yeates & Lo, 2022: 857. Phylogeny or classification

Austrocarausius mercurius (Stål, 1877) in Jones, Brock, Mantovani, Beasley-Hall, Yeates & Lo, 2022: 857, figs. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification
Carausius australicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (subjective synonym of Carausius mercurius Stål, 1877) in Ragazzini, Pamin, Nguyen, Hawlitschek & Husemann, 2024: 36. Phylogeny or classification

Nomenclature references (19)

Balderson, J., Rentz, D.C.F. & Roach, A.M.E. (1998) Phasmatodea. In W.W.K. Houston & A. Wells (Eds.). Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. pp. 347–376, 451–456.
Brock, P.D. & Büscher, T.H. (2022) Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids. NAP Editions, France: Verrières-le-Buisson, 612 pp. Available at http://www.napeditions.com/en/67-stick-and-leaf-insects-of-the-world.html
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Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J.W. (2007) Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa, 1570, 1–84. Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/287837852_Studies_on_the_Australian_stick_insects_Phasmida_including_a_checklist_of_species_and_bibliography

Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J.W. (2009) In The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. 204 pp. Available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6012.htm

Brock, P.D. (1998) Catalogue of type-specimens of Stick- and Leaf-Insects in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Insecta: Phasmida). Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien: Vol. 13(5). Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, 72 pp. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/kat-nhmw_13_0003-0072.pdf

Brock, P.D. (2000) Studies on Australian stick-insects of the family Heteronemiidae, subfamily Lonchodinae, including the description of a new species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 9, 51–55. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3503633?seq=1

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1907) Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). In Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden: Vol. II. Verlag Engelmann, Leipzig. 181–338, pls 7–15. [in German] Available at http://www.archive.org/details/DieInsektenfamilieDerPhasmiden.Vol.Ii.PhasmidaeAnareolataeclitumnini

Jones, B.R., Brock, P.D., Mantovani, B., Beasley-Hall, P., Yeates, D.K. & Lo, N. (2022) Integrative taxonomy of the stick insect genus Austrocarausius Brock, 2000 (Phasmatodea: Lonchodidae) reveals cryptic species in remnant Queensland rainforests. Invertebrate Systematics, 36(9), 849–873, doi:10.1071/IS21076. Available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS21076

Kirby, W.F. (1904) A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). The Trustees of the British Museum, London, Vol. 1, 501 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29661

Otte, D. & Brock, P.D. (2005) In Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world. The Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 414 pp. Available at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24725959-phasmida-species-file

Ragazzini, M., Pamin, J.-H., Nguyen, E., Hawlitschek, O. & Husemann, M. (2024) An annotated catalogue of the type specimens of Phasmatodea deposited at the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). Zootaxa, 5499, 1–82. Available at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5499.1.1

Rudolf, E. & Brock, P.D. (2017) Austrocarausius mercurius. Available at http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/78789295/0

Sjöstedt, Y. (1933) Orthopterentypen im Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. 7. Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 25A(16), 1–10.

Stål, C. (1877) Espèces nouvelles de Phasmides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 20, 62–69. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45830#page/520/mode/1up

Velonà, A., Brock, P.D., Hasenpusch, J.W. & Mantovani, B. (2015) Cryptic diversity in Australian stick insects (Insecta; Phasmida) uncovered by the DNA barcoding approach. Zootaxa, 3957(4), 455–466. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03957p466f.pdf

Vickery, V.R. (1983) Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20, 1–19. Available at http://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=procite:bc6d4d28-0bab-4f42-8f59-c5025bb110cd&dsid=DS1

Weidner, H. (1966) Die entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. VI. Insecta III. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburger Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 63, 209–264. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1966-blattariae-thysanoptera.pdf

Williams, G. (2020) In The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Vic. Available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7948/
Zompro, O. (2002) Catalogue of type material of the insect order Phasmatodea at the Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg (Insecta: Orthoptera: Phasmatodea). Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums und Instituts, 99, 179–201. Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/27261013_Catalogue_of_type_material_of_the_insect_order_Phasmatodea_at_the_Zoologisches_Museum_der_Universitat_Hamburg_Insecta_Orthoptera_Phasmatodea

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3