Hoploclonia abercrombiei is a stick insect species known from the northwest of Borneo, more precisely from only one place in the Malay state Sarawak.

After a closer examination, he and Ian Abercrombie decided in 1994 to look again at the same place, where three more males and three females were found, two of them copulating pairs.

[4] As early as 2018, a study based on genetic analysis proved that Hoploclonia abercrombiei is an independent one and is therefore a valid species.

In adult males, the spiny areas and especially the spines themselves are dark brown and therefore mostly a little lighter than the rest of the black-brown colored body.

The end of the abdomen forms a short laying spine (ovipositor) to deposit the eggs in the ground.