Phobaeticus kirbyi

Taxobox
name = "Phobaeticus kirbyi"

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image_caption = Female "Phobaeticus kirbyi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Phasmatodea
familia = Phasmatidae
subfamilia = Phasmatinae
tribus = Pharnaciini
genus = "Phobaeticus"
species = "P. kirbyi"
binomial = "Phobaeticus kirbyi"
binomial_authority = Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
synonyms =
*"Baculolonga kirbyi"
(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
*"Pharnacia kirbyi"
(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
*"Pharnacia pilicornis"
Redtenbacher, 1908
*"Pharnacia sagitta"
Redtenbacher, 1908
*"Phobaeticus kirbiyii"
Seow-Choen, Grinang & Naming, 2004

"Phobaeticus kirbyi" is a very large stick insect native to Borneo. The holotype deposited at the Natural History Museum in London measures 328 mm excluding legs and 546 mm including legs. This makes it the longest known insect in terms of body length, although "Phobaeticus serratipes" exceeds it in total length with legs extended.Brock, P.D. 1999. "The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects". Cravitz Printing Co., Essex, England.] However, recent specimens of "P. kirbyi" have only reached 283 mm in body length.

References

External links

* [http://phasmida.orthoptera.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1003799 Phasmida Species File: "Phobaeticus kirbyi"]