Ireneo L. Lit, Jr. and Orlando L. Eusebio described the species in 2005 from animals collected the previous year on the island of Dalupiri and deposited a female as holotype, as well as various paratypes, including males, nymphs and eggs, at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna.

They named the species after Carmela S. Española, who found the holotype while accompanying the Babuyan expedition team.

[3] As early as 2003, animals were collected on the neighboring Calayan Island that were described by Oskar V. Conle and Frank H. Hennemann as Trachyaretaon brueckneri.

The specific epithet was chosen in honor of Martin Brückner, a Munich biologist and friend of the authors.

It quickly became clear that both were representatives of the same species and that the name assigned by Lit and Eusebio should be given priority based on the previously published description.

During the mating the male pushes a greenish colored seed carrier (spermatophore) under the subgenital plate of the female.

A slightly moist soil layer a few centimeters thick or a correspondingly filled flower pot must be present in the terrarium to enable the females to lay their eggs.

[2] A female's bite in the wrist has been documented by Philip Edward Bragg, a behavior which is rather unusual for stick insects.