Haaniella saussurei

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Haaniella saussurei
Haaniella saussurei, pair
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Subfamily: Heteropteryginae
Tribe: Heteropterygini
Genus: Haaniella
Species:
H. saussurei
Binomial name
Haaniella saussurei
Kirby, 1904
Synonyms[1]
abdomen of a subadult female nymph
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Haaniella saussurei is a species of

Heteropteryginae. The occasionally used common name Saussure's Haaniella refers to the species name.[1]

Description

As is typical for most of the species of the

mesonotum in addition to the characteristic four spines at the end in front and in the middle, Haaniella saussurei lacks the pair of spines in the middle of the mesonotum. In adult males, not only the green spines are conspicuous, but also the green, sometimes turquoise-green joint areas, especially on the hind coxae, which are particularly prominent there due to the red thigh ring.[2]

Distribution and reproduction

The distribution area of Haaniella saussurei is limited to the coastal areas in the west of Borneo. Here the species was found in the southwest of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Females lay lemon-shaped, hairless eggs in the ground. These are 9 to 12 millimetres (0.35 to 0.47 in) long, 7 millimetres (0.28 in) high and about6 millimetres (0.24 in) wide.[2][3]

Taxonomy

In 1869,

comb. nov.). In 1938, John W. H. Rehn assigned the female described by Kirby as Haaniella saussurei to Haaniella echinata and thus synonymousized Haaniella saussurei. At the same time he described the species Haaniella echidna using a male from the collection of Morgan Hebard deposited at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.[7] This was placed by Klaus Günther in 1944 as a subspecies of Haaniella echinata. He also considered the species described by Kirby to be a subspecies and named it Haaniella echinata saussurei. He does not name Kirby as the author of the subspecies, but Redtenbacher.[8] Philip E. Bragg recognized Haaniella saussurei as an independent valid species again in 1992 and also transferred Haaniella echidna, which Daniel Otte had raised again to species status in 1978, as a synonym for this.[1]

et al. divided the genus into three species groups in 2016. Haaniella saussurei has been assigned to the "echinata" species group along with Haaniella echinata and Haaniella scabra.[9] This assignment could not be confirmed by a molecular genetic study from 2021. Sarah Bank et al. included, among others, at least five species from Borneo in their study and showed that Haaniella saussurei has a special position within the genus, while the other species from Borneo are relatively closely related.[10]

In terraristics

Haaniella saussurei first appeared in terraristics in the second half of the 1990s. The breeding stocks go back to specimens collected by Philip E. Bragg and Ian Abercrombie in 1994 in Sarawak, more precisely in Tarum near Debak. The species was assigned PSG number 177 by the Phasmid Study Group.

Medium-sized terrariums are required to keep Haaniella saussurei. In these, a substrate that is suitable for laying eggs and is always slightly moist should cover the terrarium floor by 5 to 10 centimetres (2.0 to 3.9 in). The humidity and temperature in the terrarium should be rather high in order to do justice to the tropical origin of the animals. It eats leaves of

Salal.[11][12][13]

Gallery

  • Male
    Male
  • contrasting drawn female
    contrasting drawn female
  • Eggs
    Eggs
  • Arrangement of the thoracic spines in a male
    Arrangement of the thoracic spines in a male

References

  1. ^ a b c d Brock, P. D.; Büscher, T. H. & Baker, E. W. Phasmida Species File Online. Version 5.0. (accessdate 11 October 2022)
  2. ^
    ISBN 983-812-027-8
  3. ISBN 3-933646-89-8
  4. de Saussure, H. (1869). Melanges Orthopterologiques
    , Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, pp. 310–312
  5. ^ Kirby, W. F. (1904). A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae), pp. 397
  6. ^ Redtenbacher, J. (1906). Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Vol. 1. Phasmidae Areolatae. Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, p. 171
  7. ^ Rehn, J. W. H.: Notes on the Genus Haaniella with the Description of a New Species (Orthoptera: Phasmatidae), Transactions of the American Entomological Society 64 (4), 1938. p. 369, pl. 14 pic. 1
  8. ^ Günther, K. (1944). Bemerkungen über indomalayische Stabheuschrecken (Orth.), besonders die Gattung Haaniella Kby., Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 105, pp. 68–72
  9. ISSN 1175-5326
  10. ^ Bank, S.; Buckley, T. R.; Büscher, T. H.; Bresseel, J.; Constant, J.; de Haan, M.; Dittmar, D.; Dräger, H.; Kahar, R. S.; Kang, A.; Kneubühler, B.; Langton-Myers, S. & Bradler, S. (2021). Reconstructing the nonadaptive radiation of an ancient lineage of ground-dwelling stick insects (Phasmatodea: Heteropterygidae), Systematic Entomology, DOI:10.1111/syen.12472
  11. ^ Hennemann, F. H.; Conle, O. V.; Kneubühler, B. & Valero, P., Phasmatodea.com
  12. ^ "PSG Culture List". Phasmid Study Group. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  13. ISBN 978-3-89555-423-0

External links
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