Brasidas cavernosus

Brasidas cavernosus
Brasidas cavernosus from Rapu Rapu, ♀♀ and
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Subfamily: Obriminae
Tribe: Obrimini
Genus: Brasidas
Species:
B. cavernosus
Binomial name
Brasidas cavernosus
(Stål, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Obrimus cavernosus
  • Euobrimus cavernosus

Brasidas cavernosus is a representative of the stick insects native to the Philippine island Luzon. It is considered one of the largest species in the subfamily Obriminae.

a) picture from Rethenbacher 1906, (pl. I, fig. 6); b) female from stock imported as Euobrimus lacerta coll. at Mount Pulog (PSG 377); c) female from stock imported as Brasidas sp. "Rapu Rapu" (PSG 362)