
Genus
Species
Stock
Culture status
In culture
Foodplants
Bramble (Rubus spp.)
Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
Mango (Mangifera indica)
Breeding notes
(by Bruno Kneubuehler)
- first culture by Bruno Kneubühler (CH) in 2016
- please also read our notes on successfully breeding Phyllium
- provenience: Nanga Nanga village, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- in the wild they feed on Mango leaves
- in the local language they are called Pakpaku Dawai. Pakpaku means "grab tighly on to" and Dawai means "tree"
- females ≈ 9 - 9.5 cm
- males ≈ 6 cm
- incubation is about 4 - 5 months at 20 - 25°C
- most females are green, a few are bright orange in color
- a few males of this species are orange too, while most males are green
- the peculiar eggs are round, about 4 mm in diameter
- this an easy-to-breed Phyllium species, which is not very prone to "cannibalism"