[1][2] On September 8, 1995, Oliver Zompro collected a nymph of this previously unknown species in Sungay a Barangay of Tagaytay City in the Province of Cavite on the Filipino island Luzon.

This leads to incorrect identification of the location of the breeding line that emerged from the adult female.

Zompro found further females in 1999 near the original discovery location near the Taal Lake in the jungle near Tagaytay on ferns.

In a later publication, of which Zompro is the editor, it is announced that the holotype will be given to the Museum of Natural History of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños.

According to Zompro, the entire cultivated population of the species and thus of the genus for years was descended from these two females.

Zompro leaves open whether he also distributed offspring from the females found on ferns at Taal Lake in 1999, which he bred successfully.

During the day they sit camouflage themselves on their food plants, which preferably have similar colors as the animals themselves.

For oviposition, a good five inches high layer of damp humus-sand mixture should cover the ground.

[5][7] After its introduction, the species was one of the most commonly kept stick insects and is listed by the Phasmid Study Group under the PSG number 195.