Tisamenus ranarius

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Tisamenus ranarius
Tisamenus ranarius, female holotype from Natural History Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Subfamily: Obriminae
Tribe: Obrimini
Genus: Tisamenus
Species:
T. ranarius
Binomial name
Tisamenus ranarius
(
Westwood
, 1859)
Synonyms[1]
  • Acanthoderus ranarius Westwood, 1859
  • Heterocopus ranarius (Westwood, 1859)
  • Ilocano ranarius (Westwood, 1859)
holotype in sideview

Tisamenus ranarius is a

family of the Heteropterygidae native to the Philippines.[1]

Description

Only females are known of this species. These reach a length of 42 to 44 millimetres (1.7 to 1.7 in) and have remarkably few spines for a

abdomen attaches approximately the width of the anterior edge of the mesonotum. A distinct longitudinal crest runs from the anterior edge of the mesonotum over the metanotum to the end of the abdomen. On the rear abdominal segments, its parts are clearly tooth-like. The ovipositor is short and beak-shaped.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Westwood[4]

James Abram Garfield Rehn and his son John William Holman Rehn did not transfer the species to the genus Hoploclonia like all current Tisamenus species, but to the genus Ilocano set up for Ilocano hebardi (today Tisamenus herbardi), which has been synonymized with Tisamenus since 2021.[3][6] The assignment to Ilocano remained until 2004.[1] Only Oliver Zompro transferred the species back to Tisamenus together with all other Philippine representatives except Ilocano hebardi.[7]

The female used by Westwood for the description is deposited as

Natural History Museum in London. Another female, labeled as another type, is in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, although Westwood based the description only on material from the Natural History Museum in London. Neither the exact location nor any other information is stored for these specimens.[1][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Brock, P. D.; Büscher, T. H. & Baker, E. W. Phasmida Species File Online. Version 5.0. (accessdate 27 February 2023)
  2. ^ a b Redtenbacher, J. (1906). Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Vol. 1. Phasmidae Areolatae. Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, pp. 45–46, pl. 1 fig 9
  3. ^
    Rehn, J. A. G. & Rehn, J. W. H. (1939). The Orthoptera of the Philippine Island, Part 1. - Phasmatidae; Obriminae
    , Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 90, 1938), Philadelphia 1938/39, pp. 468–471
  4. ^
    Westwood, J. O. (1859). Catalogue of orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum; Part I., Phasmidae
    , London, p. 53, pl. 4 fig. 3
  5. ^ Kirby, W. F. (1904). A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae), p. 399
  6. ^ 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, p. 13 & p. 16, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12472
  7. ^ Zompro, O. (2004). Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea), Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler, p. 205 & pp. 200–207, ISBN 978-3-931374-39-6
  8. ^ Brock, P. D.; Judith A. Marshall, J. A.; Beccaloni, G. W. & Allan J. E. Harman, A.J.E. (2016). The types of Phasmida in the Natural History Museum, London, UK, Zootaxa 4179(2), p. 191, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.2.1.

External links

Data related to Tisamenus draconina at Wikispecies Media related to Tisamenus draconina at Wikimedia Commons

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