Revision of the Neotropical stick insect genus Ocnophila (Phasmatodea: Diapheromeridae) with a new species from Colombia
Author
Ghirotto, Victor Morais
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; & Projeto Phasma, Brazil.
Author
Engelking, Phillip Watzke
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; & Projeto Phasma, Brazil.
Author
Crispino, Edgar Blois
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; & Projeto Phasma, Brazil.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-26
5296
2
179
209
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5296.2.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5296.2.3
1175-5326
7973264
30BAA198-ACE8-4559-871F-4847416EA355
Genus
Canuleius
Stål, 1875: 53
See
Brock
et al.
(2023)
for a complete reference list
This genus mostly occurs in the Atlantic Forest of
Brazil
, from which one of the transferred species was collected, the other without precise known locality. The genus now contains 20 species. Characteristics contained by the transferred species that allowed generic assignment are the following: smooth head with convex vertex; proportions of thorax; relatively enlarged tarsi; similar morphology of teminalia.
Ocnophila pedestris
Brunner, 1907: 313
=
Canuleius pedestris
(
Brunner, 1907
)
comb. nov.
>>
Syntypes
,
♀
(
NMW
):
Brasilien, ex coll.
Fruhstorfer
; det.
Br.v.W.
Ocnophila pedestris
; 24.---; 623 [examined]
;
♀
nymph (
NMW
):
Coll.
Br.v.W.
Theresopolis
,
Sta. Catharina
,
Brasil
, leg. Fruhstorfer; 623 [examined]
.
Ocnophila nattereri
Brunner, 1907: 316
syn. nov.
=
Canuleius euterpinus
(
Westwood, 1859: 56
)
>>
Holotype
, J (
NMW
):
det.
Br.
v.W.
Ocnophila nattereri
; Mus. Caes. Vind.
Brasilien
; “Winks[?]”. Bres. [examined].