Orestes guangxiensis ( Bi & Li, 1994 ) Joachim Bresseel & Jérôme Constant, 2018

Joachim Bresseel & Jérôme Constant, 2018, The Oriental stick insect genus Orestes Redtenbacher, 1906: Taxonomical notes and six new species from Vietnam (Phasmida: Heteropterygidae: Dataminae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 58, pp. 1-62 : 59

Orestes guangxiensis ( Bi & Li, 1994) comb. nov.

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Datames guangxiensis BI & LI, 1994: 254 ; figs 1–4 [described and illustrated]. Pylaemenes hongkongensis BROCK & SEOW- CHOEN, 2000: 143 ; fig. 11 illustrated]. Synonymised by ZOMPRO (2004).

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Dares guangxiensis – ZOMPRO, 2004: 219 [transferred to Dares ].

Pylaemenes guangxiensis – OTTE & BROCK, 2005: 296 [transferred to Pylaemenes ]. — CHEN & HE, 2008: 358; fig. 321 A–C; pl. 4 fig. 3 [redescribed (in Chinese), keyed, illustrated].

NOTE. The species is here transferred to Orestes based on the examination of the illustrations in CHEN & HE (2008) and the photographs of the type specimen of Pylaemenes hongkongensis Brock & Seow-Choen, 2000 ( BROCK et al., 2017). Females have the typical dorsally flattened and apically straight anal segment. They have the widest part of the body at the posterior margin of tergum IV. These characters clearly place guanxiensis in Orestes .