Synonymy
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Diapherodes christopheri
Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 84,
pl XXXIII, figs 4, 4a, 4b
[ female ].
[ Type locality: St. Kitts, West Indies. ]
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Kirby, 1904c,
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, I: 462.
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Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, p 434.
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Description
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Color. Greenish yellow.
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Male. Unknown.
Female. Head with a pair of unequal tubercles and several small spines
behind.
Pronotum with two small spines at the posterior margin; mesonotum with a pair of large spines
anteriorly and numerous additional small tubercles.
Mesopleurae spinose; metapleurae smooth.
Abdominal tegite VII somewhat expanded.
Supraanal plate visible.
Subgenital plate elongate, boat-shaped.
Lower median carina of anterior femora with two or three spines; lower median carina of
middle and posterior femora with six or eight spines; posterior first tarsomere not longer than
the next two together.
Tegmina green; wings reaching to about the middle of the median segment, anterior area green.
Figure 1.
Paratype female [ Oxford ].
Figure 2.
Lectotype female [ Oxford ].
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Geographic distribution. St. Kitts.
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Lectotype.
A female. St. Christopher, West Indies. 1858. Shepard. (Hope Dept., Oxford, Type No. Orth: 614 2/2).
Here selected. [
Oxford ]
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Systematic notes.
I have examined three females, but only made measurements on one.
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Female |
| Total length |
106 mm |
| mesonotum |
21 mm |
| metanotum & median segment |
16 mm |
| anterior femur |
18 mm |
| median femur |
16 mm |
| posterior femur |
20 mm |
| tegmen |
8 mm |
| wing |
9 mm |
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Known Distribution
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St. Kitts
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island label only
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Oxford
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No locality
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BMNH
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