Genus
Species
Stock
Culture status
Unknown
Foodplants
Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
Guava (Psidium guajava)
Breeding notes
(by Bruno Kneubuehler)
- please read my notes on successfully breeding Phyllium
- this culture originates from the Bukit Daun volcano on Sumatra (near Bengkulu)
- it belongs to the Phyllium hausleithneri species group. Currently Royce Cummings (USA) examines DNA to determine whether this population is conspecific or different from Phyllium hausleithneri from Peninsular Malaysia
- incubation about 4 - 5 months, but some nymphs can hatch even months after the first nymphs
- food plants:
- I have kept mine on Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- most probably bramble (Rubus spp.), hazelnut (Corylus avellana) or beech (Fagus spp) is well accepted too
- the collector fed them on Guava (Psidium guajava)
- their natural food plant is not known
- I have kept nymphs from L1 to about L4 in an airy netting cage (Free-Standing-Setup) at around 60 - 65% rH
- older nymphs and adults (especially males) are better kept at a higher humidity of about 75%
- spray regularly but let water dry up before you spray again
- females about 7 cm, males about 5.5 cm
- this species is very prone to "cannibalism", more on this here
- overall this Phyllium species is rather easy to keep
