Scientific Publications and Described Species

Contributions to neotropical Phasmatodea taxonomy

I work on the taxonomy and systematics of phasmids, with a particular interest in American fauna — though my publications include a couple of species described from Europe and Southeast Asia. Much of that work has been carried out in collaboration with researchers from different countries and institutions, combining my own field expeditions with review of material in institutional collections.

To date I have participated in the description of 29 species and 4 new genera for science, with many more new taxa currently pending publication.

Geographic distribution of described species

Scientific Articles

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Studies on Neotropical Phasmatodea XXVII: a new endemic stick insect genus with two species from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Conle, O.V., Hennemann, F.H., Valero, P., Schwarz, C.J., Engelking, P.W., Neves, P.A.B.A., Chiquetto-Machado, P.I. & Ghirotto, V.M. (2025). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 65: e202565036. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2025.65.036

A new Trychopeplus species from Ecuador's enigmatic Chocó ecoregion

Conle, O.V., Valero, P. & Hennemann, F.H. (2024). ZooKeys, 1217: 309–326. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1217.130397

On the Brazilian Exocnophila stick insects, with the description of a new species

Ghirotto, V.M., Conle, O., Hennemann, F., Valero, P. & Cancello, E.M. (2024). Zootaxa, 5536(1): 59–98. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.1.2

Thirteen new species of Urucumania stick insects from Brazil and Bolivia

Ghirotto, V.M., Crispino, E.B., Engelking, P.W., Neves, P.A.B.A., Valero, P., et al. (2024). Biologia, 79: 2707–2769. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01699-1

Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process

Forni, G., Martelossi, J., Valero, P., Hennemann, F., Conle, O., Luchetti, A. & Mantovani, B. (2022). Systematic Biology, 71(6): 1471–1486. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac038

Studies on Neotropical Phasmatodea XXV: Revision of Pterinoxylus with two new species from Costa Rica

Hennemann, F.H., Conle, O.V., Valero, P. & Nishida, K. (2022). Zootaxa, 5208(1): 1–72. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5208.1.1

Studies on Neotropical Phasmatodea XXIII: Bostriana n. gen., a new genus from Bolivia

Hennemann, F.H., Conle, O.V. & Valero, P. (2021). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 57(3): 273–282. https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2020.1867951

Studies on neotropical Phasmatodea XXII: Two new species of Taraxippus and first record from Central America

Conle, O.V., Hennemann, F.H. & Valero, P. (2020). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 29(1): 101–114. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.29.51328

Studies on neotropical Phasmatodea XXI: Sigaruphasma, a new genus from Hispaniola

Hennemann, F.H., Conle, O.V., Perez-Gelabert, D.E. & Valero, P. (2020). Novitates Caribaea, 16: 58–79. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi16.227

Studies on neotropical Phasmatodea XX: A new genus and 16 new species from French Guiana

Conle, O.V., Hennemann, F.H., Bellanger, Y., Lelong, P., Jourdan, T. & Valero, P. (2020). Zootaxa, 4814(1): 1–136. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4814.1.1

Description of Phyllium conlei, new species, from the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia

Cumming, R.T., Valero, P. & Teemsma, S.N. (2018). Insecta Mundi, 0677: 1–9. https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/0677

Description and DNA barcoding of a new Iberian species of Pijnackeria from Sierra Nevada, Spain

Valero, P. & Ortiz, A.S. (2015). Zootaxa, 4058(4): 535–550. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4058.4.5

Species and Genera Described

I have contributed to the description of 4 new genera and 29 new species for science, distributed across 10 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Southeast Asia.

All descriptions follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and are registered in ZooBank.

Described genera

  • Atlantopteryx Conle et al., 2025 · Brazil
  • Bostriana Hennemann, Conle & Valero, 2021 · Bolivia
  • Paragrostia Conle et al., 2020 · French Guiana
  • Sigaruphasma Hennemann et al., 2020 · Hispaniola

Described species (29)

French Guiana · 2020

Agrostia longicerca · Cladomorphus guianensis · Dinelytron cahureli · Hirtuleius gracilis · Isagoras similis · Paragrostia brulei · Paraprisopus apterus · Paraprisopus multicolorus · Parastratocles fuscomarginatus · Parastratocles rosanti · Phanocles procerus · Phanocloidea lobulatipes · Prexaspes globosicaput · Prexaspes guianensis · Prisopus clarus · Prisopus conocephalus

Brazil · 2024–2025

Atlantopteryx parva · Atlantopteryx scotina · Exocnophila ovifuscum · Urucumania oriomadeirensis

Caribbean — Hispaniola · 2020

Sigaruphasma armatum · Sigaruphasma bouladoui · Taraxippus perezgelaberti · Taraxippus samarae

Central America — Costa Rica · 2022

Pterinoxylus cocoense · Pterinoxylus speciosus

Ecuador · 2024

Trychopeplus mashpiensis

Indonesia · 2018

Phyllium conlei

Spain · 2015

Pijnackeria recondita

29

Species Described

4

Genera Described

12

Publications

10+

Countries Studied

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Taraxippus — genus described by the author