Macynia labiata (female) Photograph by P.D. Brock

The Bacillid Stick Insects (Phasmida: Bacillidae) of South Africa Compiled by Paul D. Brock "Papillon", 40 Thorndike Road, Slough SL2 1SR, England

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(left) Macynia labiata (male) and (right) Phalces brevis (female) Photographs by P.D. Brock

Family: Bacillidae

Subfamily: Bacillinae

1. Genus: Phalces Stål, 1875
   1. P. brevis (Burmeister, 1838)

      Bacillus brevis Burmeister 1838: 562

      = Phasma (Bacillus) longiscaphum de Haan, 1842: 101

      = Bacillus coccyx Westwood 1859: 6
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, to Tanzania?

      
      
   2. P. tuberculatus (Brock, 2000)

      Phalces tuberculatus Brock, 2000: 1
      Western Cape, ENDEMIC.

   
   
2. Genus: Xylobacillus Uvarov, 1940
   = Parabacillus Schulthess
   1. X. femoratus (Schulthess, 1910)

      Parabacillus femoratus Schulthess, 1910: 8
      "Transvaal"; ENDEMIC

      
      
   
   

   Subfamily: Antongiliinae

3. Genus: Xylica Karsch 1898: 365, 381
   1. X. tomsi Brock 2005

      Xylica tomsi Brock, 2005: 25-28
      Limpopo, Eastern Cape

      
      
   
   

   Subfamily: Macyniinae

4. Genus: Macynia
   1. M. labiata (Thunberg,1784)

      Mantis labiata Thunberg, 1784: 61

      = Bacillus capensis Serville 1838: 257

      = Bacillus stellenboschus Westwood 1859: 5
      Western Cape, ENDEMIC.

      
      
   
   

REFERENCES

Phasmida Species File

Brock, P.D. 2000.

Studies of the genus Phalces Stål. Phasmid Studies 8: 1-8

Brock, P.D. 2000.

Stick insects from the Cape Town area, South Africa. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 59: 2-13, pl. 00A-00D

Brock, P.D. 2005.

A new genus and four new species of South African stick insects. Phasmid studies 12: 25-37.

Compton, S. & Ware, A. 1991.

Ants disperse the elaiosome-bearing eggs of an African stick insect. Psyche 98: 207-213.