Synonymy
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Necroscia cyllarus Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 155, pl. XIII,
figs. 2, 2a, 2b [ male ],
pl. XIV, figs. 5, 5a, 5b [ female ].
[ Type locality: Jamaica. ]
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Pseudophasma cyllarus (Westwood)
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Rehn, 1904,
Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia, 1904: 99.
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Kirby, 1904c,
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, I: 411.
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Phasma cyllarus (Westwood)
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Redtenbacher, 1906,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 118, 127.
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Anisomorpha buprestoides King, 1867:lxxviii.
[ Nec Stoll, 1813 ]
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Description
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Color.
Dark reddish brown with a darker median stripe.
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Female.
Head. Vertex smooth; first antennal flagellomere about twice as long as the pedicel.
Thorax. Pronotum elongate, disc smooth, lateral margins subparallel, smooth; mesonotum only about 1.1 times the
length of the pronotum, disc rugose, lateral margins with small tubercles.
Abdomen. Tergites medially bicarinate, X broadly truncate distally, posterolateral angles of the tergites not spinose.
Subgenital plate reaching almost to the end of the abdomen, smooth, apex acuminate.
Wings. Tegmina short, the tubercles obtuse, posterior margin oblique; hindwings fully developed, reaching to abdominal
segment IX or beyond, posterior area light tan.
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Male.
Thorax. Mesonotum granulate and laterally tuberculate.
Abdomen Subgenital plate apically rounded; vomer very broad, medially sulcate, lateral margins rounded and swollen,
apex flat, rounded.
Wings. Tegmina with the posterior margin rounded; hindwings fully developed, reaching to abdominal segment VIII.
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Geographic distribution.
Throughout Jamaica.
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Type material.
N. cyllarus.
A male. 379♂. Jamaica. [
BMNH ]. Here selected.
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Systematic notes.
The systematic position of this species has been a problem since it was originally described. That it is merely an alate
Anisomorpha is clearly shown by its general body form and the structure of the male vomer.
I have examined 15 males and 11 females.
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Males |
Females |
| Total length |
33-37 mm |
50-62 mm |
| mesonotum |
4- 4 mm |
6- 6 mm |
| metanotum & median segment |
6- 7 mm |
10-11 mm |
| anterior femur |
8- 9 mm |
13-14 mm |
| median femur |
5- 6 mm |
10-11 mm |
| posterior femur |
7- 9 mm |
15-14 mm |
| tegmen |
3- 4 mm |
6- 6 mm |
| wing |
21-22 mm |
38-43 mm |
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Known Distribution
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Jamaica
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island label only
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ANSP
BMNH
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St. James. Montego Bay
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ANSP
AMNH
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St. James. Snug Harbor
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ANSP
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Trelawny. Falmouth
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AMNH
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Clarendon. Portland Ridge
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SMIJ
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St. Andrew
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SMIJ
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St. Andrew. Long Mountain
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SMIJ
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St. Elizabeth. Malvern
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MCZ
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