Lopaphus Westwood, 1859, p. 99.
Type species. - Lopaphus brachypterus (Haan) [Phasma brachypterum] 1842, p. 125, designated by Kirby, 1904a, p. 360.

Main characteristics. -  Head elongate and depressed; elytra explicit, wings in females short and not extended beyond the third abdominal segment (in New Guinea species even shorter than metanotum), in males long; operculum in females navicular, sharply carinate and hind margin acuminate; four hind femora ventrally with 1-2 subapical teeth.

Distribution. - Indo-China, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines and New Guinea.

Represented in New Guinea by:
buegersi Günther, 1929, p. 697 & [ZMHB].