Species

Neoparamenexenus (Neoparamenexenus) laetus (Kirby, 1904)

Vietnam Green Stick-insect

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: head and thorax, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: head and thorax, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, dorsal view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, dorsal view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, ventral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male: end of abdomen, ventral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male, data labels of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. male, data labels of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: head and thorax, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: head and thorax, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, dorsal view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, dorsal view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: end of abdomen, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: end of abdomen, lateral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: end of abdomen, ventral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female: end of abdomen, ventral view of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560754; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560755; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels of Promachus laetus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560756; 41aee513-6ad8-4734-aa3f-d9a73d326d9a: copyright NMW, Vienna. male of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntypes). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560757; 7a447ebe-908d-4253-a8a6-9871f5ea786b: copyright NMW, Vienna. male of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntypes). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560756; 41aee513-6ad8-4734-aa3f-d9a73d326d9a: copyright NMW, Vienna. male: head and thorax, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560757; 7a447ebe-908d-4253-a8a6-9871f5ea786b: copyright NMW, Vienna. male: head and thorax, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560756; 41aee513-6ad8-4734-aa3f-d9a73d326d9a: copyright NMW, Vienna. male: end of abdomen, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560757; 7a447ebe-908d-4253-a8a6-9871f5ea786b: copyright NMW, Vienna. male: end of abdomen, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560756; 41aee513-6ad8-4734-aa3f-d9a73d326d9a: copyright NMW, Vienna. female of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntypes). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560757; 7a447ebe-908d-4253-a8a6-9871f5ea786b: copyright NMW, Vienna. female of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntypes). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1560756; 41aee513-6ad8-4734-aa3f-d9a73d326d9a: copyright NMW, Vienna. female: head and thorax, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1560757; 7a447ebe-908d-4253-a8a6-9871f5ea786b: copyright NMW, Vienna. female: head and thorax, lateral view of synonym Paramenexenus operculatus (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (21)

Promachus laetus Kirby, 1904: 375.
Syntypes (n= 2); male; aee801ec-a06f-440b-a782-b07c829527ca; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Vietnam: 'Tonkin', Matton Mts. Syntype; female; 1176b0fb-8934-4baa-b13b-f287905b2a61; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Vietnam: 'Tonkin', Matton Mts
Promachus laetus Kirby, 1904: 326.

Neoparamenexenus (Neoparamenexenus) laetus (Kirby, 1904) in Ho, 2025: 8-9.
Neoparamenexenus laetus (Kirby, 1904)

Nomenclature references (18)

Baxter, R.N. (2002) Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects. Chudleigh Publishing, Ilford, 103 pp. Available at http://www.pemberleybooks.com/product/rearing-stick-and-leaf-insects/5624/
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

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. (2003) Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. Revised Edition. The Amateur Entomologists' Society, London, Vol. 22, 89 pp. Available at http://shop.amentsoc.org/rearing-and-studying-stick-and-leaf-insects.html

Brock, P.D., Marshall, J.A., Beccaloni, G.W. & Harman, A.J.E. (2016) The types of Phasmida in the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Zootaxa, 4179(2), 151–208. Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/309585799_The_types_of_Phasmida_in_the_Natural_History_Museum_London_UK

Carl, J. (1913) Phasmides nouveaux ou peu connus du Muséum de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 21(1), 1–56, pl. 21. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40668#page/11/mode/1up

Chen, S.C. & He, Y.H. (2008) Phasmatodea of China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 476 pp. [in Chinese] Available at http://www.nhbs.com/phasmatodea-of-china-chinese-book

Harman, A.J.E. (2012) The Development of the Phasmid Species List Part Three. PSG No. 101 - PSG No. 150. The Phasmid Study Group Newsletter, 128, 13–15.

Ho, G.W.-C. (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea XVI: New taxa and new nomenclature of the subfamilies Necrosciinae(Lonchodidae) from the Phasmatodea of China II. Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin, 17(1), 3–25. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wai-Chun-George-Ho

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

Kirby, W.F. (1904) Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, with descriptions of new species. - No. 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7)13, 372–377. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54611#page/392/mode/1up

Lipinski, K., Greven, H., Schulten, D. & Löser, S. (1999) In Die Struktur der Eihüllen von 48 Phasmatodea-Arten aus der Sammlung des Löbbecke Museum und Aquazoo Düsseldorf. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Löbbecke-Museum und Aquazoo. 1–125 pp. [in German] Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologie-heute_BH_5_0001-0125.pdf

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

Redtenbacher, J. (1908) Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). In Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden: Vol. III. Verlag Engelmann, Leipzig. 339–589, pls 16–27. [in German] Available at http://www.archive.org/details/DieInsektenfamilieDerPhasmiden.Vol.Iii.PhasmidaeAnareolatae

Schulten, D. (1995) In Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Löbbecke-Museum and Aquazoo. Vol. 3, 1–132 pp. [in German] Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologie-heute_BH_3_0001-0132.pdf

Seiler, C., Bradler, S. & Koch, R. (2000) In Phasmiden Pflege und Zucht von Gespenstschrecken, Stabschrecken und Wandelnden Blattern im Terrarium. bede-Verlag GmbH, Ruhmannsfelden. 144 pp. [in German]

Sellick, J.T.C. (1998) The micropylar plate of the eggs of Phasmida, with a survey of the range of plate form within the order. Systematic Entomology, 23, 203–228. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-3113.1998.00056.x
Zompro, O. (2000) Die Phasmidensammlung des Übersee-Museums Bremen. TenDenZen Supplement, 1999, 61–70. [1999] Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/27281173_Die_Phasmidensammlung_des_Ubersee_-_Museums_Bremen

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	4	5