''Cheniphasma'' is a genus of
stick insect
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's da ...
s in the tribe
Necrosciini
Necrosciinae is a subfamily of the stick insect family Lonchodidae, with its greatest diversity in South-East Asia.
The subfamilies Necrosciinae and Lonchodinae, formerly part of Diapheromeridae, were determined to make up a separate family and ...
, erected by G.W.C. Ho in 2012.
[Ho GWC (2012) ''Entomol. Fennica'' 23: 217]
www.researchgate.net
/ref> Species have been recorded from China (Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
) and Vietnam.[
]
Species
The ''Phasmida Species File'' lists:
# '' Cheniphasma fruhstorferi'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) (synonym ''Menexenus fruhstorferi'' from Vietnam)
# '' Cheniphasma granulatum'' Ho, 2013
# '' Cheniphasma parvidentatum'' Ho, 2020
# '' Cheniphasma serrifemoralis'' Ho, 2012 - type species
References
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Phasmatodea genera
Phasmatodea of Asia
Lonchodidae