''Eurycnema'' is a genus of

stick insects 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 dar ...

in the family

Phasmatidae The Phasmatidae are a family (biology), family of the stick insects (order (biology), order Phasmatodea). They belong to the Superfamily (zoology), superfamily Anareolatae of suborder Verophasmatodea. Like many of their relatives, the Phasmatida ...

and tribe Phasmatini. Species have a known distribution from Australia,

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

Kei islands The Kai Islands (also Kei Islands) of Indonesia are a group of islands in the southeastern part of the Maluku Islands, located in the province of Maluku. The Moluccas have been known as the Spice Islands due to regionally specific plants such ...

Timor Timor (, , ) is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is Indonesia–Timor-Leste border, divided between the sovereign states of Timor-Leste in the eastern part and Indonesia in the ...

Wetar Wetar is a tropical island which belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku and is the largest island of the Maluku Barat Daya Islands (literally ''Southwest Islands'') Regency of the Maluku Islands. It lies east of the Lesser Sunda Islands, ...

Solor Solor is a volcanic island located off the eastern tip of Flores island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, in the Solor Archipelago. The island supports a small population that has been whaling for hundreds of years. They speak the lan ...

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Species

''Eurycnema'' includes the following species: # ''

Eurycnema goliath ''Eurycnema goliath'', commonly known as the goliath stick insect, or the regal stick insect, is a large species of stick insect in the family Phasmatidae, Endemism, endemic to Australia and considered one of the largest species of stick insects ...

'' (Gray, 1834) # '' Eurycnema nigrospinosa'' Redtenbacher, 1908 # ''

Eurycnema osiris ''Eurycnema'' is a genus of Phasmatodea, stick insects in the family Phasmatidae and tribe Phasmatini. Species have a known distribution from Australia, New Guinea, Kei islands, Timor, Wetar & Solor. Species ''Eurycnema'' includes the followi ...

'' (Gray, 1834) # '' Eurycnema versirubra'' (Audinet-Serville, 1838) - type species (as ''Cyphocrania versirubra'' Audinet-Serville, by subsequent designationKirby WF (1904) ''A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae)'' 1: 501pp.)

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10491629 Phasmatodea genera Phasmatidae Phasmatodea of Asia