Peruphasma
schultei
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Name latin Peruphasma schultei
english Black Velvet Stick Insect
PSG-Number 270
Systematics Super-Order Dictyoptera
Order Phasmatodea
Family Pseudophasmatidae
Subfamily Pseudophasmatinae
First Description Author CONLE & HENNEMANN
Year 2005
Size

Quotation of Size

The given size is measured from the head to the end of the abdomen, without the wings.

Male ca. 4,5cm- 5cm
Female ca. 5,5cm- 6,5cm
Lifespan

Quotation of the Lifespan

The lifespan is given in month and has the following definition:

overall-age ("time between hatching and imago" + "lifespan after the last molting")

Example: 9 (2 + 7) month lifespan
overall-age = 9 month
time between hatching and imago = 2 month
lifespan after the last molting = 7 month

Male ca. 8 (3 + 5) months
Female ca. 12 (4 + 8) months
Sexing

Sexing

Morphologically differences between male and female.

Male L3 and above: the end of the abdomen is thickened, slimmer than females
adult: thinner abdomen, smaller than females
Female larvae/ adult: more compact abdomen
Spreading North Peru, Cordillera del Condor
Southamerica
Southamerica
Habitat mountain forest, bromeliad
endemic
Aggressiveness not among each other, but with other insects (defending- fluid)
Colorvariants none

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