PSG Numbers

Every stick insect species is given a number by the Phasmid Study Group. This is because the Latin species names of stick insects are prone to changes because of new phylogenic insights in the genus of the stick insects. This means it can be very confusing to work with species that keep changing names. The PSG numbers never change even though the Latin names of the species change.

Below you find the list of all PSG numbers of all known and named stick insects. Between brackets is the name of the person that named the species. (Tip: If you simultaneously press the Control key and F you can search this list using your web browser.)

1 Carausius morosus (Sinéty)
2 Pseudodiacantha macklottii (de Haan)
3 Bacillus rossius (Rossi)
4 Sipyloidea sipylus (Westwood)
5 Medauriodea extradentata (Brunner)
6 Acanthoxyla prasina (Westwood)
7 Clitarchus hookeri (White)
8 Bactrododema tiaratum (Stål)
9 Extatosoma tiaratum tiaratum (Macleay)
10 Phyllium bioculatum Gray
11 Cladomorphus phyllinus (Gray)
12 Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll)
13 Acrophylla wuelfingi (Redtenbacher)
14 Eurycnema goliath (Gray)
15 Anchiale briareus (Gray)
16 Carausius sechellensis (Bolivar)
17 Caribbiopheromera jamaicana (Zompro)
18 Heteropteryx dilatata (Parkinson)
19 Lonchodes brevipes (Gray)
20 Anchiale maculata (Olivier)
21 Extatosoma popa popa(Stål)
22 Ramulus thaii (Hausleithner)
23 Eurycantha calcarata (Lucas)
24 Same as P.S.G. 5.
25 Phobaeticus serratipes (Gray)
26 Haaniella echinata (Redt.)
27 Carausius chani (Hausleithner)
28 Eurycnema versirubra (Audinet-Serville)
29 Lonchodes imitator (Brunner)
30 Pharnacia cantori (Westwood)
31 Creoxylus spinosus (Fabricius)
32 Ocnophiloidea regularis (Brunner)
33 Acanthoxyla intermedia (Salmon)
34 Tectarchus huttoni (Brunner)
35 Diapheromera femorata (Say)
36 Lonchodes hosei hosei (Kirby)
37 Lopaphus perakensis (Redtenbacher)
38 Dares validispinus (Stål)
39 Lonchodes jejunus (Brunner)
40 Lopaphus nanoalatus (Brock) “MICROWINGS”
41 No id yet, possibly Clonaria sp. “GRASS SP.”
42 No id yet, possibly Clonaria sp. “MADRAS THORN”
43 Graeffea sp.
44 Eurycantha calcarata spp. (Lucas)
45 Clonopsis gallica (Charpentier)
46 Marmessoidea rosea (Fabricius)
47 Phanocles costaricensis (Hennemann)
48 Haplopus cytherea (Westwood)
49 No id yet
50 Paranisomorpha sp.
51 Libethra sp.
52 Alienobostra brocki (Hausleithner)
53 Hermarchus inermis (Redtenbacher)
54 no id
55 Ramulus nematodes (de Haan)
56 same as P.S.G. 3.
57 Hermarchus polynesicus (Redtenbacher)
58 Pharnacia sumatrana (Brunner)
59 Phyllium bioculatum (Gray)
60 Phyllium bioculatum (Gray)
61 Haplopus micropterus (Fargeau, Serville)
62 no id
63 no id
64 Same as P.S.G. 37.
65 Sipyloidea sp.
66 Carausius sanguineoligatus (Brunner)
67 Lonchodes everetti (Kirby)
68 Lonchodes sp.
69 Dares verrucosus (Redtenbacher)
70 Haaniella scabra (Redtenbacher)
71 Bacillus atticus cyprius (Uvarov)
72 Phyllium giganteum (Hausleithner)
73 Phenacephorus cornucervi (Brunner)
74 Anchiale sp.
75 Same as P.S.G. 25.
76 Phyllium siccifolium (Linnaeus)
77 Phyllium sp. (Illiger)
78 Same as P.S.G. 30.
79 Bostra aetolus (Westwood)
80 Acanthoxyla geisovii (Kaup)
81 Acanthoxyla inermis (Salmon)
82 Rhaphiderus spinigerus (Lucas)
83 Rhaphiderus scabrosus (Stål)
84 Oreophoetes peruana (Saussure)
85 Pseudophasma rufipes (Redtenbacher)
86 Dyme rarospinosa (Brunner)
87 Parocnophilia latirostrata (Zompro)
88 Necroscia sp.
89 Sosibia parvipennis (Stal)
90 Ramphosipyloidea gorkomi (Hausleithner)
91 Same as P.S.G. 45.
92 Menexenus exiguus alienigna (Günther)
93 no id
94 Cuniculina insignis (Wood-Mason)
95 Ramulus frustrans (Brunner)
96 Menexenus nudiusculus (Hausleithner)
97 Diapheromera arizonensis (Caudell)
98 Parabacillus hesperus (Hebard)
99 Epidares nolimetangere (de Haan)
100 Lonchodes amaurops (Westwood)
101 Lamponius guerini (Saussure)
102 Clonaria sp
103 Sipyloidea sp. “THAILAND 8″ (Brunner)
104 Phaenopharos herwaardeni (Henneman)
105 Parapachymorpha spinosa (Brunner)
106 Oncotophasma martini (Griffini)
107 Bacillus lynceorum (Bullini ea)
108 Bacillus whitei (Nascetti & Bullini)
109 Carausius abbreviatus (Brunner)
110 Hoploclonia gecko (Westwood)
111 Eurycantha insularis (Lucas)
112 Haaniella muelleri (de Haan)
113 Dyme sp.
114 Ramulus sp. “THAILAND 2″
115 Paramyronides ? sp. “THAILAND 6″
116 Pseudophasma bispinosum (Redtenbacher)
117 Dares ulula (Westwood)
118 Aretaon asperrimus (Redtenbacher)
119 Lonchodes jejunus (Brunner)
120 Carausius cristatus Brunner
121 Phenacephorus spinulosus (Hausleithner)
122 Anisomorpha paromalus (Westwood)
123 Leptynia hispanica (Bolivar)
124 Acacus sarawacus (Westwood)
125 Haaniella grayii (Westwood)
126 Haaniella dehaanii (Westwood)
127 Lonchodes megabeast (Bragg)
128 Phyllium celebicum (de Haan)
129 Lonchodes jejunus (Brunner)
130 Diesbachia hellotis (Westwood)
131 Leiophasma adustum (Redtenbacher)
132 Leiophasma nigrotuberculatum (Redt.)
133 Parectatosoma hystrix (Wood-Mason)
134 Paramyronides sp.
135 Carausius sp.
136 Carausius sp.
137 Pharnacia sp.
138 Lonchodes modestus (Brunner)
139 Carausius sp.
140 Bacteria sp.
141 Clonaria sp.
142 Clonaria sp.
143 Sipyloidea sp.?
144 Ramulus artemis
145 Paramenexenus laetus (Kirby)
146 Centrophasma hadrillum (Westwood)
147 Carausius alluaudi (Bolivar)
148 Paraclonistra sp (ST. KITTS)
149 Achrioptera punctipes (Audinet-Serville)
150 Dinophasma guttigerum (Westwood)
151 Asceles margaritatus (Redtenbacher)
152 Phanocloidea nodulosa (Redtenbacher)
153 Ramulus siamensis CHIANG MAI (Brunner)
154 Acrophylla titan (Macleay)
155 Anchiale austrotessulata (Gray)
156 Bacillus atticus atticus (Brunner)
157 Ramulus sp.
158 Ramulus sp.
159 Ramulus sp.
160 Trachythorax maculicollis (Westwood)
161 Phenacephorus sepilokensis (Bragg)
162 Phenacephorus auriculatus (Brunner)
163 Sipyloidea larryi (Brock & Hasenpusch)
164 Parapachymorpha spiniger (Hen ea.)
165 Hoploclonia abercrombiei (Bragg)
166 Dinophasma saginatum (Redtenbacher)
167 Hermachus novaebritanniae (Wood-Mason)
168 Clonistra bartholomaea (Stal)
169 Lonchodes mindanaensis (Brunner)
170 Phanocloidea muricata (Burmeister)
171 Rhynchacris ornata (Redtenbacher)
172 Bacillus grandii grandii (Nascetti & Bullini)
173 Neohirasea maerens (Brunner)
174 Lopaphus sphalerus (Redtenbacher)
175 Diesbachia tamyris (Westwood)
176 Lonchodes geniculatus (Gray)
177 Haaniella saussurei (Kirby)
178 Clonistra sp.
179 Clonaria fritzschei (Zompro)
180 Stheneboea malaya (Stal)
181 Hermagoras cultratolobatus (Bragg)
182 Oxyartes lamellatus (Kirby)
183 Sceptrophasma hispidulum (Wood-Mason)
184 no id
185 Neohirasea sp.
186 Chondrostethus woodfordi (Kirby)
187 Creoxylus hagani (Redtenbacher)
188 Oxyartes spinipennis (Carl)
189 Pseudophasma acanthonotum (Redtenbacher)
190 Phasma gigas (Linnaeus)
191 Urucumania borellii (Giglio-Tos)
192 Orestes mohoutii (Bates)
193 Tropidoderus childrenii (Gray)
194 Rhamphophasma spinicorne (Stal)
195 Sungaya inexpectata (Zompro)
196 Baculofractum insigne (Brunner)
197 Pharnacia westwoodii (Wood-Mason)
198 Anisomorpha ferruginea (Beauvois)
199 Hoploclonia cuspidata (Redtenbacher)
200 Lonchodes malleti (Bragg)
201 Sipyloidea sp.
202 Medaura jobrensis (Brock & Cliquennois)
203 Pharnacia biceps (Redtenbacher)
204 Menexenus batesii (Kirby)
205 Phaenopharos struthioneus (Westwood)
206 Clonria sp.
207 Cuniculina sp. “BANGLADESH 13″
208 Pharnacia jianfenglingensis
209 Lopaphus brachypterus (de Haan)
210 Myronides magnificus (Brunner)
211 Cuniculina sp. “BANGLADESH 12”
212 Pylaemenes mitratus (Redtenbacher)
213 Malacomorpha jamaicana (Redtenbacher)
214 Haplopus jamaicensis (Drury)
215 Phanopharos khaoyaiensis (Zompro)
216 Medaura scabriuscula (Wood-Mason)
217 Lopaphus trilineatus (Carl)
218 Clonaria luethyi (Zompro)
219 Cuniculina sp “BANGLADESH 2”
220 Malacomorpha cyllarum (Westwood)
221 Sceptrophasma langkawicense (Brock ea.)
222 Sipyloidea sp.
223 Rhamphosipyloidea philippa (Stal)
224 Parapachymorpha zomproi (Fritzsche)
225 Clonaria conformans (Brunner)
226 Cuniculina stilpna (Westwood)
227 Entoria koshunensis (Shiraki)
228 Entoria formosana (Shiraki)
229 Ramulus? sp (Khao Yai – ronde eitjes)
230 Lonchodiodes samarensis (Conle & Hennemann)
231 Abrosoma festinatum (Brock & Seow-Choen)
232 Mithrenes panayensis (Conle & Hennemann)
233 Neopromachus doreyanus (Bates)
234 Xylica oedematosa (Karsh)
235 Brasidas Samarensis (Rehn& Rehn)
236 Dimorphodes catenulatus (Redtenbacher)
237 Pseudosermyle phalangiphora (Rhen)
238 Dinophasma kinabaluense (Bragg)
239 Olinta sp
240 Lamponius portoricensis (Rehn)
241 Carausius spinosus (Brunner)
242 Neohirasea hongkongensis (Brock)
243 Entoria victoria (Brock)
244 Cuniculina cunicula (Westwood)
245 Pylaemenes borneensis sepilokensis (Bragg)
246 Lonchodes rusticus (Brunner)
247 Lonchodes harmani (Bragg & Chan)
248 Pylaemenes guangxiensis (Bi & Li)
249 Metriophasma diocles (Westwood)
250 Bacteria ferula (Fabricius)
251 Ramulus sp.
252 Lopaphus sp.
253 Ramulus sp.
254 Ramulus magnus (Brunner)
255 Trachyaretaon bruekneri(Hennemann; Conle)
256 Orxines semperi (Stål)
257 Monoiognosis bipunctata (Cliquennois; Brock)
258 Parectatosoma mocquerysi (Finot)
259 Psuedophasma menius (Westwood)
260 Diapherodes gigantea (Gmelin)
261 Canachus alligator (Redtenbacher)
262 Stheneboea rupidiosa (Brunner)
263 Bacteria yersiana (Saussure)
264 Pseudophasma velutinum (Redtenbacher)
265 Abrosoma johorensis (Seow-Choen & Goh)
266 Agamemmon cornutus (Burmeister)
267 Asceles spec. Ban Salok, Thailand (Christoph Bauduin)
268 Leiophasma lucubense (Brancsik)
269 Pseudophasma castaneum (Conle & Hennemann)
270 Peruphasma schultei (Conle & Hennemann)
271 Lopaphus sp. Thailand
272 Spinohirasea bengalensis (Zompro)
273 Ramulus irregulariterdentatus (Brunner)
274 Dyme mamillata (Brunner)
275 Lobolibethra panguana (Conle & Hennemann)
276 Sipyloidea menptolemus (Westwood)
277 Phobaeticus heusii (Hennemann & Conle)
278 Phyllium sp. Philippines
279 Unidentified Necrosciinae (Bauduin’s Thai 2)
280 Phanocles ploiaria (westwood)
281 Pterinoxylus crassus (Kirby)
282 Lonchodes philippinicus (Conle & Hennemann)
283 Diapherodes venustula (Audinet Serville)
284 Pharnacia ponderosa (Stål)
285 Hemiplasta falcata (Redtenbacher)
286 Monandroptera acanthomera (Burmeister)
287 Eucarcharus feruloides (Westwood)
288 Phasmotaenia godeffroyi (Redtenbacher)
289 Ocnophiloidea dillerorum (Conle & Hennemann)
290 Necroscia annulipes (Gray)
291 Lobolibethra sp. Lima
292 Anchiale stolli (Sharp)
293 Pseudophasma phthisicum (Linnaeus)

These species do not yet have a PSG number:

Dyme bifrons
Asceles spec. Thailand
Baculonistria alba
Phraortes bicolor
Hermarchus sp.
Neophasma subapterum
Calynda coronata

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