Planispectrum hongkongense

Planispectrum hongkongense
Planispectrum hongkongense, female of stock from Tai Tam
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phasmatodea
Family:	Heteropterygidae
Subfamily:	Dataminae
Tribe:	Datamini
Genus:	Planispectrum
Species:	P. hongkongense
Binomial name
Planispectrum hongkongense Zompro, 2004

Planispectrum hongkongense is a Phasmatodea species native to Hong Kong, of which only females are known so far.^[1][2]

Characteristics

With length about 30 millimetres (1.2 in), the females of Planispectrum hongkongense are among the larger representatives of the genus. Due to the laterally flattened

A parthenogenetic stock of Planispectrum hongkongense has been in breeding in Europe since 2020. it goes back to a female that the Czech Luděk Šulda in the Tai Tam Country Park of Hong Kong took away on November 20, 2019, while he was looking for ants. Arriving in the Czech Republic, he tried to identify the species. After it was initially thought to be a representative of the genus Orestes because of a bad photo, Pavel Potocký identified it in April 2020 using better pictures as a representative of another genus, after which Šulda sent the adult female Potocký. When the female died in July 2020, she had laid about 30 eggs, from which about 25 nymphs hatched, most of which were passed on to different breeders. Using adult females of the first offspring generation, Potocký determined the species 2021 and named the breeding line after the origin as Planispectrum hongkongense 'Tai Tam '.

Planispectrum hongkongense is easy to keep and to breed. The nymphs grow very slowly and, like the

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