| Phyllium | |
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| Phyllium sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Superfamily: | Phyllioidea |
| Family: | Phylliidae |
| Tribe: | Phylliini |
| Genus: | Phyllium Illiger, 1798 |
Phyllium is the largest and most widespread genus of leaf insects in the family Phylliidae (Phasmatodea). They can be found in Sundaland, Philippine Islands, Wallacea, and Australasia.
Species
Within the genus Phyllium, apart from Phyllium itself, the subgenus Pulchriphyllium established by Griffini in 1898 has been differentiated. Two further subgenera, Comptaphyllium and Walaphyllium, were described in 2019 and 2020. Since 2021, all three subgenera have been regarded as separate genera. The genus includes the following species:
- Phyllium antonkozlovi Cumming, 2017
- Phyllium arthurchungi Seow-Choen, 2016
- Phyllium bilobatum Gray, G.R., 1843
- Phyllium bonifacioi Lit & Eusebio, 2014
- Phyllium bourquei Cumming & Le Tirant, 2017
- Phyllium bradleri Seow-Choen, 2017
- Phyllium brossardi Cumming, Le Tirant & Teemsma, 2017
- Phyllium chenqiae Seow-Choen, 2017
- Phyllium conlei Cumming, Valero & Teemsma, 2018
- Phyllium cummingi Seow-Choen, 2017
- Phyllium elegans Grösser, 1991
- Phyllium ericoriai Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel, 2009
- Phyllium fallorum Cumming, 2017
- Phyllium gantungense Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel, 2009
- Phyllium gardabagusi Cumming, Bank, Le Tirant & Bradler, 2020
- Phyllium hausleithneri Brock, 1999
- Phyllium iyadaon Cumming, Le Tirant, Linde, Solan, Foley, Eulin, Lavado, Whiting, Bradler & Bank, 2023
- Phyllium jacobsoni Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H., 1934
- Phyllium letiranti Cumming & Teemsma 2018
- Phyllium longicorne Latreille, 1802
- Phyllium mabantai Bresseel, Hennemann, Conle & Gottardo, 2009
- Phyllium mamasaense Grösser, 2008
- Phyllium mindorense Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel, 2009
- Phyllium nisus Cumming, Bank, Le Tirant & Bradler, 2020
- Phyllium ortizi Cumming, Le Tirant, Linde, Solan, Foley, Eulin, Lavado, Whiting, Bradler & Bank, 2023
- Phyllium palawanense Grösser, 2001
- Phyllium philippinicum Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel, 2009
- Phyllium rubrum Cumming, Le Tirant & Teemsma, 2018
- Phyllium saltonae Cumming, Baker, Le Tirant & Marshall, 2020
- Phyllium samarense Cumming, Le Tirant, Linde, Solan, Foley, Eulin, Lavado, Whiting, Bradler & Bank, 2023
- Phyllium siccifolium (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus siccifolius L., locality India)
- Phyllium telnovi Brock, 2014
- Phyllium tobeloense Grösser, 2007
- Phyllium woodi Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H., 1934
Gallery
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Phyllium bilobatum female
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Phyllium bonifacioi, female
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Phyllium elegans, female
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Phyllium hausleithneri, female
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Phyllium letiranti, pair
References
- Illiger (1798) Verzeichnis der Käfer Preussens 499.
- Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ^ Paul D. Brock, Büscher, T. B. & Baker, E. W.: Phasmida Species File Online. Version 5.0./5.0. (accessdate 4 August 2023)
- Cumming, R. T., Sarah Bank, S.; Bresseel, J.; Constant, J.; Le Tirant, S.; Dong, Z.; Sonet, G. & Sven Bradler (2021) Cryptophyllium, the hidden leaf insects – descriptions of a new leaf insect genus and thirteen species from the former celebicum species group (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae)ZooKeys 1018: 1–179
- Cumming, R. T.; Teemsma, S. N. & Riquelme, P. V. (2018) Description of Phyllium (Phyllium) conlei, new species, and a first look at the Phylliidae (Phasmatodea) of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Insecta mundi. Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc., Gainesville, FL USA.
- Bank, S.; Cumming, R. T.; Li, Y.; Henze, K.; Le Tirant, S. & Bradler, S. (2021) A tree of leaves: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the leaf insects (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae)
- Cumming, R. T., Le Tirant, Linde, J. B., Solan, M. E., Foley, E. M., Eulin, N. E. C., Lavado, R., Whiting, M. F., Bradler, S. & Bank, S. (2023) On seven undescribed leaf insect species revealed within the recent “Tree of Leaves” (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae)
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