Synonymy
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Diapherodes laevicollis
Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 434, 435.
[ Type locality: Jamaica. ]
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Description
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Color. Green and brown.
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Male. Unknown.
Female. Head with the vertex a little unevenly swollen, multituberculate
or spinose.
Pronotum with numerous short blackish spines; mesonotum with a number of small spines near
the constricted anterior margin, laterally with some small spines.
Mesosternum with a few granules; metasternum smooth.
Meso- and metapleurae irregularly multispinose.
Abdominal tergites II-IV with faint paired posterior swellings, VII somewhat dilated,
posterolateral angles acute, X faintly carinate distally, apex rounded.
Supraanal plate small, rounded.
Subgenital plate elongate.
Legs short; lower median carina of anterior femora with three spines; lower median carina of
middle and posterior femora with five spines; posterior lower carina of middle and posterior
femora sometimes bispinose; posterior first tarsomere not longer than the next two together.
Tegmina green; wings about as long as the tegmina, reaching beyond the middle of the median
segment, anterior area green.
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Geographic distribution. Jamaica.
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Type.
A female. Coll. BR.v.W. Jamaica. Staudinger. Phas. Inv. Nr. 802. [
NMW ]
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Systematic notes.
I have examined two females.
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Females |
| Total length |
84-110 mm |
| mesonotum |
16- 18 mm |
| metanotum & median segment |
12- 15 mm |
| anterior femur |
14- 16 mm |
| median femur |
12- 14 mm |
| posterior femur |
17- 20 mm |
| tegmen |
7- 10 mm |
| wing |
7- 9 mm |
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Known Distribution
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Jamaica
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island label only
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NMW
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Portland. Summit of Blue Mtn.
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SMIJ
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