Phanocles sp. "Durango"

(by Bruno Kneubuehler)

General Notes

• 2008 - first successful culture by Bruno Kneubühler
• 2008 - distributed as Phanocles sp. "Durango"

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Orgin

• Durango (Esmeraldas, Ecuador)

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Females

• typical brown phasmids, they can become quite big - about 15 - 16 cm long
• some small blunt spines on the thorax
• 2 blunt spines on the head

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Males

• also typical phasmids - about 10 cm long
• they are winged
• they behave very hysteric and stagger around the cage for quite a long time when being touched. This makes is not so easy to change food plants when there are several male in the cage

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Eggs

• brown, about 3 mm long
• incubate the eggs at room temperatures (18-25°C) on some humid substrate, e.g. sand. Incubation time is about 4-5 months

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Food Plants

• both nymphs and adult feed easily on bramble, but they also like oak very much

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Breeding Notes

• nymphs will also act quite disturbed when being touched, but they calm down quickly
• during the day, nymphs are usually on the leaves of the food plants
• keep nymphs and adults in quite an airy cage. Move nymphs to a bigger cage according to their size as they grow up
• adult moult will happen after about 3 months for male and 3,5 months for females
• females lay several eggs per day, which they just drop to the ground
• neither do I spray nymphs nor adults with water
• if there is a wet paper towel on the cage floor, then humidity in the cage will be high enough to ensure that they nymphs can moult successfully