Tisamenus deplanatus
Tisamenus deplanatus is a stick insect species native to the Philippine islands Luzon and Mindanao occurs. Taxonomy In 1845 John Obadiah Westwood first described the species as Phasma (Pachymorpha) deplanatum and transferred it to the genus Acanthoderus in 1859. A female is deposited as holotype in the Natural History Museum, London. In 1875 Carl Stål transferred the species as Tisamenus deplanatus to the genus he established Tisamenus. In 1939 the genus Tisamenus was synonymized with the genus Hoploclonia, whereby the species as Hoploclonia deplanata. At the same time the genus Hoploclonia was divided into different groups according to morphological aspects. In the so-called Deplanata group, they placed with Hoploclonia deplanata, Hoploclonia cervicornis (today Tisamenus cervicornis), Hoploclonia armadillo (today Tisamenus armadillo), Hoploclonia spadix (today Tisamenus spadix), Hoploclonia tagalog (today Tisamenus tagalog) and Hoploclonia fratercula (today Tisamenus fratercula), relatively unspined species, with a flat upper surface, which except for the supra coxal spines on the edges of the thorax show almost no spines, but at most teeth. In 2004 the Filipino species were transferred back to the genus Tisamenus and only those occurring on Borneo were left in the genus Hoploclonia, the species was called Tisamenus deplanata. In 2018 the ending of