PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 108(4), 2006, pp. 885-891 STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL PHASMATODEA III: A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ANISOMORPHA GRAY, 1835 (PHASMATODEA: PSEUDOPHASMATIDAE: PSEUDOPHASMATINAE) FROM HISPANIOLA OsKAR V. CONLE, FRANK H. HENNEMANN, AND DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT (OVC) Goldbachweg 24, 87538 Bolsterlang, Germany (e-mail: conle@phasmatodea. com); (FHH) Triftstrasse 104, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany (e-mail: hennemann@ phasmatodea.com); (DEP) Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A. (e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract.4Antisomorpha clara, n. sp., from Hispaniola is described and illustrated from both sexes. It is the first record of true Anisomorpha Gray, 1835, in the Greater Antilles. Key Words: stick insects, phasmids, Anisomorphini, taxonomy, Greater Antilles, Dominican Republic A survey of the Hispaniolan orthop- material collected in the Dominican Re- teroid insects was carried out from 2001 public are in progress. through 2004 comprising nine interna- Abbreviations used are as _ follows: tional expeditions and collections at 280 ANSP: Academy of Natural Sciences, sites distributed throughout the geogra- Philadelphia, PA, USA; MHND: Museo phy of the Dominican Republic. Besides Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo many interesting Orthoptera, large num- Domingo, Dominican Republic: USNM: bers of Phasmatodea were collected. In National Museum of Natural History, this first report on the stick insects, we Smithsonian Institution, Washington, describe a new species of the genus DE, USA Anisomorpha Gray, 1835. Although the genus had been cited previously for the Antillean islands (e.g., Perez-Gelabert Anisomorpha Gray 2001), this is the first true Anisomorpha Anisomorpha Gray 1835: 13. Type spe- known from the area. All other species cies: Phasma buprestoides Stoll 1813: from Central or South America and the 68, by subsequent designation of Kirby Caribbean attributed to Anisomorpha by 1904: 401. various authors have proven to belong to other genera. All species described in Anisomorpha was discussed and _ re- Anisomorpha from the Greater Antilles vised in detail by Conle and Hennemann are members of Malacomorpha Rehn, (2002) and was believed to be extinct in 1906 (Conle et al., in preparation). The the Caribbean. The three species then new species is described and figured from known are restricted to southeastern both sexes, but the eggs remain un- USA and the Yucatan Peninsula (Mex- known. Further studies dealing with ico and Belize). 886 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Species Included and Distribution 2,040 m, 27.X.2002, R. Bastardo, (USNM); 2 nymphs: Dominican Repub- . Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll, 1813: 4 lic, RD-076, down from Cuevita, Valle 68) [Phasma]. Nuevo, <La? Vega Prove,= 2090 mr = Phasma vermicularis Stoll, 1813: 68. 18°46.3269N 70°40.438'W, 28.XI.2002, = Spectrum bivittatum Say, 1824: 38. D. Perez, B. Hierro, R. Bastardo (night), [Distribution: Southeastern USA in alcohol (USNM); 18 nymphs: Domin- (Georgia to Key West, Florida)] ican Republic, RD-117, down from 2. Anisomorpha clara, 0. sp. Cuevita, Valle Nuevo, La Vega Prov., [Distribution: Greater Antilles, Hispa- 2,280 m, 18°46.2589N = 70°40.564'W, niola (Dominican Republic)] DAN 2003, PD. PRerez,, Ro Bastardo. . Anisomorpha ferruginea (Palisot de Hierro (night), in alcohol (ANSP, o>) USNM). Beauvois, 18212 Vey, spl 14) fies: 6; 7) Distribution.4Hispaniola: Dominican |P hasma]. Republic, La Vega Province, Valle Nue- [Distribution: Southeastern USA (ex- vo. cept Florida)] Etymology.4The 4 species epithet 4. Anisomorpha_ paromalus Westwood, 8clara9 [clarus (Latin) = clear, pale, 1S59> 17,9pl3..191ess-9.04e I bright] refers to the remarkably pale = Anisomorpha monstrosa Hebard, and slightly translucent body and pale 1932" 42: straw extremities. [Distribution: Mexico (Yucatan) and Differentiation.4The new species is Belize] easily distinguished from all other species of Anisomorpha by its smaller size (at Anisomorpha clara Conle, Hennemann, least in the female); very pale and slightly and Perez-Gelabert, new species translucent straw coloration of the body; (Figs. 146) straw-colored legs and tarsi; lack of Holotype.4¢: Dominican Republic, a dark longitudinal line along the lateral RD-076, down from Cuevita, Valle surfaces of the thorax and abdomen; lack INuevo;.) a) Vera) Prov; (2709610, of a posteromedian indentation of the 18°46.3269N 70°40.438'9W, 28.X1.2002, anal segment of the male; and distinct D. Perez, B. Hierro, R. Bastardo (night) geographical distribution, being the only (ANSP). representative of the genus known from Paratypes.4@ 2. 39 mymphs)n2 2.2 the Greater Antilles. nymphs: Dominican Republic, RD-114, Description.4Female (Figs. 3, 5): Typ- La Nevera, Valle Nuevo, La Vega Prov., ical for genus but small (body length 18°41 .943'N 70°35.995'W,, VIV.2003, D. 32.5437.0 mm) and rather stout. Abdo- Perez, R. Bastardo, B. Hierro (night) men gently swollen medially. Legs long (ANSP, USNM, MHND); 1 2, 16 and slender, with indistinct carinae and nymphs: same data as holotype (ANSP, entirely unarmed. Entire body surface USNM, MHND); | nymph: Dominican smooth and shiny, sections of the thorax Republic, Nacimiento de Rio Yuna, slightly translucent. General coloration Valle Nuevo, 18°49.750'N 70°38.057'W, of body, legs, tarsi, and antenna pale 4 Figs. 14S. Anisomorpha clara. 1, Male (holotype), terminal abdominal segments, lateral view. 2, Male (holotype), terminal abdominal segments, ventral view. 3, Female (paratype), terminal abdominal segments, lateral view. 4, Male (holotype), dorsal view. 5, Female (paratype), dorsal view. Figs. 143, ?scale = 1 mm; Figs. 546, scale = 10 mm. VOLUME 108, NUMBER 4 887 a ee eee e eee 8 28.xi.2002, D. Peg, Servo, R. Bastardo. (nigh 888 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Fig. 6. Live Anisomorpha clara (male) on a leaf of its host plant Garrya fadyenii. straw. Dorsal surface of head and entire Head: Large, distinctly longer than body with a bold, black longitudinal wide, dorsally and laterally compressed, median stripe and_ several indistinct oval in cross-section. Section behind eyes minute brown lateral spots on abdomi- considerably broadened. Eye small, oval nal tergites; sometimes brown lateral and indistinctly convex. Antenna fili- spots and markings present on thorax. form, longer than head and entire thorax Head with a fine, black postocular line. combined. Scape 1.5 longer than wide, Meso- and metasterna occasionally with rectangular, dorsoventrally compressed two broad, dark, parallel longitudinal and distinctly carinated. Pedicel cylindri- median lines. Eye dark brown to black. cal, indistinctly longer than wide, 0.7 VOLUME 108, NUMBER 4 889 the length of scape and distinctly nar- indistinctly wider than long; VIII-X rower; wider than antennomeres. Third about as wide as long. Tergite X with antennomere almost as long as scape and an indistinct longitudinal median carina, pedicel combined. Remaining antenno- slightly narrower than IX, constricted meres distinctly longer than wide, first posteriorly, and with a faint excavation increasing then decreasing in length of lateral margins near bases of cerci. All towards apex of antenna; all cylindrical. sterna smooth. Subgenital plate flat, Thorax: Oval in cross-section. Prono- spoonlike, smooth, rounded posteriorly, tum as long as but slightly narrower than and at best reaching half way along head, 1.3 longer than wide; posterior anal segment. Cercus small, cylindrical, margin broader than anterior margin. straight, slightly tapering to a pointed Anterior angles with a prominent gap for apex and broadened basally; minutely defensive glands. Transverse depression setose. present placed in anterior third of Males (Pigs. I, 225-4, 6)? Similac jto segment and reaching lateral margins. female but smaller and much more Mesonotum broader and about 2x slender (body length 30.0 mm) and longer than pronotum, 2 longer than rather stout for genus. Coloration as in wide very slightly broadened towards female. posterior; 1.3 longer than metanotum Head: As in female. and median segment combined. Metano- Thorax: Generally as in female, but tum slightly narrower than mesonotum, mesonotum relatively longer and slightly 1.5 longer than wide, rectangular and more than 2 longer than wide. slightly longer than median segment. Legs: As in female. Profemur slightly Transverse fissure between metanotum longer than mesothorax, hind leg pro- and median segment very faint. Rudi- jecting considerably past apex of abdo- ments of tegmina and alae absent. Pro-, men. meso- and metapleurae and_ sterna Abdomen: Abdomen not broadened. smooth and shiny. Including median segment about 1.2 Legs: Long and slender, indistinctly longer than head and complete thorax carinated, and entirely unarmed. Profe- combined, subcylindrical. Median seg- mur about as long as mesothorax, hind ment slightly shorter than metanotum, leg projecting slightly over apex of transverse, and almost 2 broader than abdomen. Profemur considerably com- long. Segments II-VI narrowing, VII pressed and curved basally; medioventral and VIII narrowest. Tergites II-VI trans- carina present and distinct. Basitarsi verse, [II=V about 1-5 and VE 1.2% 1.5xX as longer than second segment; wider than long; VII almost quadrate; metabasitarsi slightly longer. Tarsi finely VIII and IX slightly widening towards bristled. posterior; IX broader than VIII. Poste- Abdomen: Including median segment rior margin of anal segment rounded, about 1.2 longer than head and entire without a medial indention. Poculum thorax combined, subcylindrical, gently small and flat, reaching about one-third swollen medially and constricted towards way along tergite IX, posterior margin tergite X. Median segment - slightly rounded and with a minute medial tip. shorter than metanotum, transverse and Vomer longer than wide, triangular, almost 2 broader than long. Segments apex tapered and distinctly pointed. II-IV increasing, VI-VII decreasing in Comments.4Anisomorpha clara is the width, V broadest; VIII-X narrower first record of Anisomorpha in the than previous. Tergites II4VII trans- Greater Antilles. Most individuals were vere. lI-V 2x) VI 15x. and9 Vil collected in close association with the 890 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Table 1. Measurements (mm) of adult indivi- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS duals of Anisomorpha clara. We thank Ruth Bastardo (Fundacion Moscoso Puello, Inc.) and _ Brigido Holotype ¢ Paratypes, 3 2 Hierro (Departamento de Vida Silvestre) Body 30.0 32.5437.0 for their enthusiastic participation in our Pronotum 2.8 3.64.1 project which greatly benefited from Mesonotum 6.3 7.0-8.6 their great expertise with logistics and Metanotum Ded 3:043.5 Median segment AD 2.5-2.9 fieldwork. We also received helpful Profemur 6.9 7.748:2 support and kind attention from the Mesofemur 635 7.241.5 personnel of the Pérez Rancier National Metafemur 8.4 9.4-9.7 Park and the Fundacion Moscoso Protibia el 7.9=8.2 Puello. Collecting and export permits Mesotibia 6.1 154Tel Metatibia 9.0 10.7410.8 were provided by the Departamento de Antenna DS) 28.0 Vida Silvestre and the Direccion Nacio- nal de Parques, Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Santo Domingo. We also acknowledge Nation- plant Garrya fadyenii Hooker (Garrya- al Science Foundation grant DEB- ceae), likely their main food plant in this 0103042 to Daniel Otte (Academy of montane habitat. Some were also found Natural Sciences, Philadelphia) and on Rubus (Rosaceae) leaves. 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