Mycovartes

Mycovartes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Subfamily: Necrosciinae
Tribe: Necrosciini
Genus: Mycovartes
Bresseel & Constant, 2024

Mycovartes is a genus of Asian stick insects in the tribe Necrosciini, erected by Joachim Bresseel and Jérôme Constant in 2024. As of November 2026, species have only been found in Vietnam.

Species

The Phasmida Species File includes:

  1. Mycovartes khoii Bresseel & Constant, 2024 - from Chu Yang Sin and Tà Đùng National Parks
  2. Mycovartes montanus Bresseel & Constant, 2024 - type species (by original designation), from Chu Yang Sin and Bidoup-Nui Ba National Parks
  3. Mycovartes vietnamensis (Ho, 2018) - originally placed in Oxyartes

References

  1. ↑ Bresseel J. Constant J (2024) Stick insects from Vietnam: The new genus Mycovartes gen. nov., with two new species and two new species of Neooxyartes Ho, 2018 (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 965, 1–50. DOI
  2. 1 2 Phasmida Species File: genus Mycovartes Bresseel & Constant, 2024 (retrieved 1 November 2026)