Orestes shirakii

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Orestes shirakii
Orestes shirakii, female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Superfamily:
Bacilloidea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Subfamily: Dataminae
Genus: Orestes
Species:
O. shirakii
Binomial name
Orestes shirakii
(Brock & Ho, 2013)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pylaemenes shirakii Brock & Ho, 2013

Orestes shirakii is a species of

Taiwan
.

Characteristics

Only the females of Orestes shirakii are known so far. These are very slim and can reach a length of 50 millimetres (2.0 in). They can be easily distinguished from

metanotum is rectangular. In the similar Orestes japonicus the mesonotum is parallel and the metanotum is square.[3]

Distribution area and reproduction

Large parts of Taiwan are named as the range of the species, where it occurs at altitudes below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[2]

The females begin to lay one to three eggs a week in or on moist soil about six weeks after molting to imago. These take four to six months to hatch. The newly hatched nymphs only begin to eat after about two weeks and take up to 15 months until they are adult. When touched, both adults and nymphs play dead.[4]

Taxonomy

Orestes shirakii 'Taiwan'

Relationships between Orestes shirakii and its
sister species or stocks according to Sarah Bank et al. (2021)[5]

et al (2016)[10] referred to as Orestes shirakii, but belong to the closely related Orestes japonicus described by Ho in 2016.[3]

As

monophyletic genus Orestes. The Vietnamese species are Orestes dittmari and a still undescribed species from the Tay Yen Tu nature reserve.[5]

Terraristic

The first and so far only

terrariums goes back to eggs that Bruno Kneubühler received from northern Taiwan in 2009 and whose offspring he distributed in 2010 as Pylaemenes guangxiensis 'Taiwan'. Sometimes the stock is still incorrectly called Orestes guangxiensis 'Taiwan'.[4][11][12]

Orestes shirakii prefers a higher

cherry laurel, Gaultheria shallon (salal), hazel, oak, beech or Epipremnum species and other Araceae.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Brock, P. D.; Büscher, T. H. & Baker, E. W. Phasmida Species File Online. Version 5.0/5.0. (accessdate 29 July 2021)
  2. ^
    ISSN 1175-5326
  3. ^
    ISSN 1175-5326
  4. ^ a b c Information about Orestes guangxiensis 'Taiwan' respectively Orestes shirakii by Kneubühler, B. at Phasmatodea.com
  5. ^ a b Bank, S.; Buckley, T. R.; Büscher, T. H.; Bresseel, J.; Constant, J.; de Haan, M.; Dittmar, D.; Dräger, H.; Kahar, R. S.; Kang, A.; Kneubühler, B.; Langton-Myers, S. & Bradler, S. (2021). Reconstructing the nonadaptive radiation of an ancient lineage of ground-dwelling stick insects (Phasmatodea: Heteropterygidae), Systematic Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12472
  6. ISSN 1374-5514
    ,
  7. ^ Okada, M. (1999). All about Japanese stick-insects, Tombo Publishing, Osaka, pp. 56 ff.
  8. ^ Brock, P. D. (1999). Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 223 ff.
  9. ^ Brock, P. D. & Okada, M. (2005). Taxonomic notes on Pylaemenes Stål 1875 (Phasmida: Heteropterygidae: Dataminae), including of the description of the male of P. guanxiensis (Bi & Li, 1994). Journal of Orthopthera Research, 14(1), pp. 23–26
  10. ISSN 1175-5326
  11. ISSN 2190-3476
  12. ^ phasmatodea.com by Hennemann, F. H.; Conle, O. V.; Kneubühler, B. & Valero, P.

External links

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