Studies on Neotropical Phasmatodea XXIV: Andeocalynda n. gen., a new genus of Andean stick insects, with the descriptions of nine new species from Colombia and Ecuador (Phasmatodea: “ Anareolatae ”: Diapheromeridae: Diapheromerinae) Author Hennemann, Frank H. Author Conle, Oskar V. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-12-22 4896 3 301 341 journal article 9197 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.1 5ee79342-4297-4a26-ab31-cc2a48e6c2ba 1175-5326 4383779 3F42C0E8-6668-4ED4-A29D-BFB331C6B0FF Andeocalynda comis ( Bates, 1865 ) n. gen., n. comb. ( Fig. 7 ) Bacteria comis Bates, 1865: 330 , pl. 12a–b (♂). HT, ♂: E coll. (1839–73) W.W. Saunders, Purchased and pres. ’73 by Mrs F.W. Hope; Bogotá ; Type—Bates. Bacteria comis , Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV, 1865, p. 330 , pl. 44, fig. 12b; Type Orth: 606, Bacteria comis Bates, Hope Dept. Ent. Oxford [UMO, No. 606]. n. comb. Clonistria comis , Kirby, 1904: 351 . Redtenbacher, 1908: 406 . Otte & Brock, 2005: 107 . Conle, Hennemann & Gutiérrez, 2011: 58 . Further material examined: 1 ♂: La Mesa (Cund.), 12.IX.93, C. Ville [ UNAB ]; 1 ♂: Palerno ( Huila ) 30-IX-96, Henry Trujillo [ UNAB ]. Diagnosis: Males of this species are similar to A. carrikeri ( Hebard, 1919 ) and A. tuberculata n. sp. , sharing the gradually ascendant anal segment with both species ( Fig. 7C ). From the first they differ by the stockier habitus, the much shorter and broader head, lack of a dark postocular streak on the genae as well as the lack of a central node of the poculum ( Fig. 6C ). With the second species ♂♂ of A. comis share the short and broad head and node-less poculum, but the poculum is notably less inflated and bulgy than in A. tuberculata n. sp. and has the posterior margin acutely triangular ( Fig. 7E ), abdominal tergum IX and the anal segment are proportionally longer and the cerci are more slender and with the apex much less blunt. Body length of the holotype 88.9 mm . Comments: Here transferred from the Antillean genus Clonistria Stål, 1875 where it was placed by Kirby (1904: 351) . A ♀ from San Martin (Dept. Meta ) in ILUD might be the opposite sex, but more material including males from this locality will be needed for confirmation. The specimen is similar to A. tuberculata n. sp. but smaller with less slender tarsi and with a blunt sub-basal tooth on the two outer ventral carina of the mesofemora . Distribution: Central Colombia : Dept. Cundinamarca ( Bogotá & La Mesa); Dept. Huila (Palermo).