Studies on Neotropical Phasmatodea XVI: Revision of Haplopodini Günther, 1953 (rev. stat.), with notes on the subfamily Cladomorphinae Bradley & Galil, 1977 and the descriptions of a new tribe, four new genera and nine new species (Phasmatodea: “ Anareolatae ”: Phasmatidae: Cladomorphinae)
Author
Frank H. Hennemann
Author
Oskar V. Conle
Author
Daniel E. Perez-Gelabert
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5.4.2. The
jamaicensis
species-group
Characteristics:
The three known members of the
jamaicensis
species-group are restricted to the two Greater Antillean islands of
Jamaica
and
Puerto Rico
(
Fig. 375
). They are of moderate size for the genus (body lengths: ♂♂ 60.0–94.0 mm, ♀♀ including subgenital plate 84.0–
164.5 mm
) with ♀♀ ranging from rather slender to moderately robust. Body surface of ♂♂ sub-glabrous to glabrous. Colouration of both sexes usually bright green (♀♀ more rarely brown or with brown markings). Pronotum without
anterior
spines; at best sparsely tuberculate. Mesonotum of ♂♂ entirely unarmed or with 2–6 paired
anterior
spines. Meso- and metasternum smooth (♂♂), mesosternum may have a few minute granules in ♀♀. Meso- and metapleurae of ♂♂ unarmed, of ♀♀ with a marginal row of granules or spiniform tubercles. Alae of ♀♀ ± as long as tegmina; anal region of both sexes plain pink to purple. Abdomen of ♀♀ broadened sub-basally with segment III broadest. Tergites IV–VII of ♀♀ ± decidedly multicarinate; VII ± strongly laterally expanded or with a triangular posterolateral lobe. Epiproct of ♀♀ large, triangular to shield-shaped and distinctly projecting over anal segment. All carinae of legs unarmed, except for spines on medioventral carina and sub-apical spines on the two outer ventral carinae of the meso- and metafemora. Dorsal carinae of meso- and metafemora may bear a ± tooth or lobe sub-apically. Eggs small to moderately sized (capsule length <5.0 mm), micropylar plate small and usually <1/3 the length of capsule. For a detailed comparison with the
gigantea
species-group see
Table 10
.