Microrestes

The genus Microrestes combines relatively small and squat Phasmatodea species from continental Southeast Asia and South China.

The genus Microrestes combines relatively small and squat Phasmatodea species from continental Southeast Asia and South China. The name Microrestes is a Portmanteau and as such a combination of the Greek “Micro” ( mikrós = 'small') and “orestes”, the name of one other Dataminae genus. It refers to the small size of the species and their close relationship to the genus Orestes. Joachim Bresseel & Jérôme Constant described the genus in 2020 on the basis of the newly described species Microrestes robustus, which was established as a type species. They also transferred a species described in 2016 as Pylaemenes trapezius by George Ho Wai-Chun to this genus. Valid species are therefore: Microrestes robustus Microrestes trapezius A female they collected in the Ngổ Luông nature reserve in July 2016 was deposited as holotype of Microrestes robustus in the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Further paratypes from the offspring of this species by Rob Krijns and Daniel Dittmar are deposited both there and in the Vietnam National Museum of Nature in Hanoi. Farther, Bresseel and Constant raised a female from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris collected as early as 1934 to the status of a paratype. In addition to the two species described, Bresseel and Constant also mention and show the third Microrestes representative found and photographed by Jiaranaisakul in Thailand. This species, previously only known from the pictures of a male that were also published, was not described due to the lack of a specimen copy. ==External links==

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