The genus Microrestes combines relatively small and squat Phasmatodea species from continental Southeast Asia and South China.

The number and arrangement of the sensory areas on the sternum, which has so far only been examined for the type species Microrestes robustus, is a specialty.

In the Thai Nan Province, K. Jiaranaisakul also found the male of a third species in July 2016 in the Doi Phu Kha National Park, which he photographed in detail.

Further paratypes from the offspring of this species by Rob Krijns and Daniel Dittmar are deposited both there and in the Vietnam National Museum of Nature in Hanoi.

Farther, Bresseel and Constant raised a female from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris collected as early as 1934 to the status of a paratype.

In addition to the two species described, Bresseel and Constant also mention and show the third Microrestes representative found and photographed by Jiaranaisakul in Thailand.