Anisomorpha jamaicana Redtenbacher, 1906
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Synonymy
Anisomorpha jamaicana Redtenbacher, 1906, Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 91, 94.
            [ Type locality:  Jamaica. ]
        Wolcott, 1936, Journ Agric Univ Puerto Rico XX (1): 35.
        Wolcott, 1948, Journ Agric Univ Puerto Rico XXXII (1): 50.
        Wolcott, 1951, Bull Agric Exper Stat Univ Puerto Rico 99: 50.


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Description
General form.
Body faintly granulate.
Color.
Light brown to reddish brown..
Female.
Head.  Vertex smooth; first antennal flagellomere about 2.3 times the length of the pedicel.
Thorax.  Pronotum smooth, the margins subparallel or slightly basally expanded; mesonotum about 1.7 times the length of the pronotum, the lateral margins tuberculate in the anterior two-thirds, and the disc with a row of small tubercles on each side of the midline in the anterior two-thirds.
Abdomen.  Tergites II-IX bicarinate, X obtusely unicarinate. Subgenital plate reaching almost to the apex of abdominal segment X, scoop-like, basally with a Λ-shaped carina, then a shallow median sulcus running towards the acutely rounded apex.
Wings.  Tegmina and wings represented by small triangular lobes at the posterolateral angles of the meso- and metanota.
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Male.
Thorax.  Mesonotum about 2.0 times the length of the pronotum.
Abdomen  Segments VIII-X broader than the preceding. Subgenital plate faintly carinate medially; vomer large, broad, apex rounded, the lateral margins swollen and rounded.
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Geographic distribution.
Apparently restricted to eastern Jamaica.
Type material.
    A. jamaicana.
        A female. Coll. Br.v.W. Jamaica. Burr. Phas. Inv. Nr. 25 [ NMW ]. Here selected.
Systematic notes.
I have examined 12 males and 18 females.

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Measurements
  Males Females
Total length 31-36 mm 48-62 mm
  mesonotum  6- 6 mm  8-10 mm
  metanotum & median segment  5- 6 mm  8- 9 mm
  anterior femur  8- 9 mm 11-15 mm
  median femur  7- 7 mm  9-11 mm
  posterior femur  9-10 mm 12-16 mm

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Known Distribution
Jamaica island label only NMW
Clarendon.   Cumberland AMNH
St. Andrew.   Cinchona AMNH
ANSP
Portland.   Hardwar Gap AMNH
St. Thomas SMIJ
Clydesdale USNM
Blue Mountains.   Pleasant Hill ANSP
Blue Mountains.   Between Pleasant Hill and St. Helen’s Gap ANSP

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