Synonymy
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Phasma angulata
Palisot de Beauvois, 1805,
Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en
Amérique, p 166, pl 14, fig 4
[ female ].
[ Nec Phasma angulata Fabricius, 1793. ]
[ Type locality: “St. Domingo.” ]
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Diapherodes spinipes Gray, 1835, Synopsis of the Phasmidae, p 34.
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Haplopus spinipes (Gray)
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Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 87.
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Kirby, 1904c,
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, I: 364.
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Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 429, 431.
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Haplopus cytherea Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 86, pl XI,
figs 5, 5a, 5b [ male ].
[ Type locality: “St. Domingo, Haiti.” ] Syn. n.
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[ Illustrations: male lectotype |
male paratype ]
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Aplopus cytherea (Westwood, 1859)
Rehn, 1904a,
Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia 1904: 63.
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Haplopus cythereus Westwood, 1859
Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 429, 432.
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Haplopus ligia Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 89, pl XI,
figs 1, 1a, 1b [ male ],
2, 2a [ female ].
[ Type locality: “St. Domingo.” ] Syn. n.
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Kirby, 1904c,
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, I: 364.
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Haplopus ligius Westwood, 1859
Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 429, 432.
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Description
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Color.
Female gray, light tan, or deep brown when pinned; male light brown or green.
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Female.
Head. With a pair of unequal pointed tubercles or spinose horns which may be black-tipped,
behind them are one or two pairs of much smaller tubercles.
Thorax. Pronotum covered with numerous black-tipped, tuberculate spines; mesonotum with
numerous similar, irregularly placed spines.
Mesosternum tuberculate; metasternum with a few small tubercles or sometimes glabrous.
Meso- and metapleurae spinose.
Abdomen. Tergites II-III and occasionally IV with faint traces of paired posterior spines
(sometimes these are developed into large, retrorse triangular plates), VII not expanded, X faintly
carinate medially, with a broad V-shaped emargination apically.
Supraanal plate carinate, triangular, rounded apically.
Sternite VII with the posterolateral angles sometimes dilated into small rounded lobes; subgenital plate
very elongate.
Legs. Lower median carina of anterior femora with two spines, of middle and posterior femora
with four spines; lower lateral carinae of the tibiae faintly serrate; posterior first tarsomere as long
as the next three taken together.
Wings. Tegmina present; hindwings reaching almost to the second abdominal segment, posterior
area hyaline, the veins with dark markings.
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Male.
Head. With an unequal pair of large, black-tipped spinose horns, behind which is a pair
of very small granules.
Thorax. Pronotum with a pair of tubercles or black-tipped spines near the anterior margin;
mesonotum with eight similar spines, four of which are clustered at the anterior margin.
Mesosternum usually with eight tubercles (varying from six to ten); metasternum with two such tubercles
medially, and sometimes an anterior pair which is reduced in size.
Meso- and metapleurae faintly granulate, with an occasional tubercle.
Abdomen. Tergites VIII-IX usually laterally white, VIII slightly expanded distally,
X emarginate apically.
Subgenital plate with a rounded median excision apically.
Cerci large, thick, straight.
Legs. Elongate, as in the female.
Wings. Tegmina green, anterior and posterior margins with some white spots; hindwings
reaching to abdominal segment VI, anterior area basally black, the remainder dark green with patches of
white, the posterior area rose-colored, the veins with dark markings.
Illustrations.
1. [ Haplopus cytherea Westwood, 1859:
lectotype |
paratype ]
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Geographic distribution.
Hispaniola.
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Type material.
P. angulata.
Not in Paris; presumed lost.
H. cytherea. Lectotype, here selected.
A male. St. Dom. Hope Dept., Oxford. Type No. Orth: 617 1/2. [
Oxford ]
H. ligia.
A male. St. Dom. 55.1. [
BMNH ]
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Systematic notes.
The specimen illustrated by Palisot de Beauvois (1805) as angulata is clearly, as noted by
Westwood (1859), a female with the last three abdominal segments broken off. Gray (1835) presented
spinipes as a replacement name. This species shows much variation, resulting in the description
of two synonyms. In some cases, the spination on the female mesonotum is reduced, exhibiting only eight
tubercles arranged in the male pattern. Spination of the male mesonotum may have an additional spine or
two, or the anterior four spines may not be clustered together. Finally, the lateral margins of the male
posterior abdominal segments sometimes do not have the white markings.
I have examined 12 males and 17 females.
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Males |
Females |
| Total length |
72-94 mm |
101-138 mm |
| mesonotum |
14-21 mm |
21- 30 mm |
| metanotum & median segment |
11-14 mm |
13- 18 mm |
| anterior femur |
16-23 mm |
18- 23 mm |
| median femur |
14-20 mm |
15- 21 mm |
| posterior femur |
19-24 mm |
20- 28 mm |
| tegmen |
8-11 mm |
8- 10 mm |
| hindwing |
35-47 mm |
8- 14 mm |
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Known Distribution
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West Indies
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no island locality given
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USNM
BMNH
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Haiti
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Gros Morne
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CFM
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Furcy
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ANSP
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Gonaive Island. Vicinity of Pointe-a-Raquettes
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MCZ
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Port-au-Prince
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AMNH
USNM
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country label only
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MCZ
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Dominican Republic
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Sosua
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ANSP
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Constanza
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ANSP
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Santo Domingo
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ANSP
BMNH
Oxford
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