Synonymy
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Platycrana venustula
Audinet-Serville, 1839,
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes.
Orthoptères, p 242.
[ Type locality: Cuba. ]
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Phasma (Diapherodes) venustulum (Audinet-Serville)
deHaan, 1842,
Bijdragen tot de Kennis der Orthoptera, p 109.
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Diapherodes venustula (Audinet-Serville)
Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 84.
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Saussure, 1872,
Recherches Zoologiques, 6me partie, Livr. 2: 185.
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Bolivar, 1888,
Mém Soc Zool France, (1888), 1, (1): 140.
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Kirby, 1904c,
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, I: 362.
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Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 434, 435.
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Rehn, 1909,
Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Cuba, p 200.
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Phasma havaniense Westwood, 1859,
Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects, I: 34, pl XXII,
figs 7, 7a, 7b [ female ].
[ Type locality: “Havannah Island.” ]
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[ Illustrations: female type ]
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Haplopus juvenis Redtenbacher, 1908,
Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp 429, 430, pl XX,
fig 4 [ male ].
[ Type locality: Cuba. ] Syn. n.
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Aplopus juvenis (Redtenbacher)
Rehn, 1909,
Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Cuba, p 200.
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Description
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Color.
Bright green.
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Female.
Head. With the vertex swollen, sometimes with a large dextral tubercle or horn, slightly
granulate behind.
Thorax. Pronotum with a pair of tubercles in the anterior half, and a much reduced pair
near the posterior margin; mesonotum with two to four small tubercles closely set at the anterior
margin, medially carinate, with some scattered granules, strongly constricted anteriorly, lateral
margins tuberculate.
Meso- and metasterna smooth.
Mesopleurae tuberculate; metapleurae smooth.
Abdomen. Tergites II-IV with the posterior margins smooth, VII elongate, tapering slightly
distally, X medially carinate, produced apically.
Supraanal plate hidden.
Subgenital plate only moderately elongate, scooplike, with only a faint median carina.
Legs. Lateral carinae finely serrate; lower median carina of anterior femora unarmed, of
middle and posterior femora with four to six small spines, lower lateral posterior carina of middle and
posterior femora bispinose; posterior first tarsomere a little longer than the next three together.
Wings. Tegmina represented by tiny projections at the posterolateral angles of the mesonotum;
hindwings totally absent.
Illustrations.
1. [ Phasma havaniense Westwood, 1859:
type ]
2. [ Diapherodes venustula (Audinet-Serville, 1839):
Geneva Museum ]
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Male.
Head. Unequally bituberculate, laterally with a white stripe behind the eyes.
Thorax. Pronotum with two pairs of tubercles; mesonotum with two to four tubercles at
the anterior margin and diffusely granulate.
Meso- and metasterna with a few granules.
medially, and sometimes an anterior pair which is reduced in size.
Mesopleurae granulate; metapleurae glabrous.
Abdomen. Tergite VIII slightly expanded, X faintly emarginate.
Subgenital plate with a V-shaped apical emargination; vomer with the apical hook short.
Cerci slender, curved.
Legs. Elongate, as in the female.
Wings. Tegmina green, anterior margin black, then with a white band; hindwings
reaching to the middle of abdominal segment VI, the anterior area green, margined with black,
then white bands, posterior area whitish yellow.
Illustrations.
1. [ Diapherodes venustula (Audinet-Serville, 1839):
Geneva Museum ]
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Egg.
Large, subovoid, asymmetrical, surface coriaceous. Micropylar plate transverse, shield-shaped,
slightly indented. Operculum flat, medially tuberculate. Length: 3.4 mm.
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Geographic distribution.
Western two provinces of Cuba.
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Type material.
P. venustula.
Not in Paris; presumed lost.
P. havaniense.
A female. Havannah Island. Hope Dept., Oxford. Type No. Orth: 615.
[ Oxford ]
H. jvenis.
A male. Coll. Br.v.W. ex. Coll. Summer. Phas. Inv. Nr. 795. [
NMW ]
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Systematic notes.
Redtenbacher’s juvenis is clearly the male of venustula; I can only assume that
he had not seen a pair of them.
I have examined 21 males and ten females.
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Males |
Females |
| Total length |
61-68 mm |
66-72 mm |
| mesonotum |
12-13 mm |
15-16 mm |
| metanotum & median segment |
8-10 mm |
10-11 mm |
| anterior femur |
12-14 mm |
12-14 mm |
| median femur |
10-12 mm |
10-12 mm |
| posterior femur |
14-16 mm |
13-15 mm |
| tegmen |
6- 8 mm |
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| hindwing |
29-35 mm |
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Known Distribution
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Cuba
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Havana
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MCZ
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Marianao
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ANSP
MCZ
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Somorrostro
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ANSP
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Pinar del Rio. Sierra Rangel
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ANSP
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island label only
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MCZ
GM
NMW
ZMHU
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