Dendrochroma

Dendrochroma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Subfamily: Necrosciinae
Tribe: Necrosciini
Genus: Dendrochroma
Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025
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Dendrochroma is a genus of Asian stick insects in the tribe Necrosciini, erected by J. Bresseel, J. Constant, R.T. Cumming and H.-T. Pham in 2025. Species have been recorded from Cambodia, Vietnam and Hainan Island (with two species previously placed in the genus Neoasceles).

Species

The Phasmida Species File includes:

  1. Dendrochroma bachmaense Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025
  2. Dendrochroma elongatum (Ho, 2024)
  3. Dendrochroma hainanense (Chen & He, 2002)
  4. Dendrochroma montanum Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025
  5. Dendrochroma tonkinense Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025 - type species (by original designation)
  6. Dendrochroma youngdalei Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025

References

  1. ↑ Bresseel J, Constant J, Cumming RT, Pham H-T (2025) The new oriental stick insect genus Dendrochroma gen. nov. with the description of four new species from Vietnam and one new subspecies from Cambodia (Phasmida: Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae). Belgian Journal of Entomology, 156, 1–44. Available here
  2. 1 2 Phasmida Species File: genus Dendrochroma Bresseel, Constant, Cumming & Pham, 2025 (retrieved 6 June 2026)