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Hoploclonia
''Hoploclonia'' is the only genus of the tribe Hoplocloniini and brings together relatively small and darkly coloured Phasmatodea species. Characteristics The representatives of this genus are very small with 35 to 40 mm in the male and 45 to 55 mm in the female sex. Both sexes are always wingless and very thorny. The thorns form a characteristic triangle on the mesothorax. At the front two corner points are created by a pair of widely spaced and, in the females, very flat thorns. While these converge at the front transversely to the body axis and thus form one side of the triangle, the third corner point and the other two sides are created by the thorn edges that taper off flat towards the rear. In this area the males still have a distinct, very close pair of thorns. They are dominated by dark brown, almost black tones, which are complemented by yellow-orange species-specific drawings. The mostly lighter females are less prickly and much more variable in color. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoploclonia Abercrombiei - Male
''Hoploclonia'' is the only genus of the tribe Hoplocloniini and brings together relatively small and darkly coloured Phasmatodea species. Characteristics The representatives of this genus are very small with 35 to 40 mm in the male and 45 to 55 mm in the female sex. Both sexes are always wingless and very thorny. The thorns form a characteristic triangle on the mesothorax. At the front two corner points are created by a pair of widely spaced and, in the females, very flat thorns. While these converge at the front transversely to the body axis and thus form one side of the triangle, the third corner point and the other two sides are created by the thorn edges that taper off flat towards the rear. In this area the males still have a distinct, very close pair of thorns. They are dominated by dark brown, almost black tones, which are complemented by yellow-orange species-specific drawings. The mostly lighter females are less prickly and much more variable in color. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoploclonia Gecko - Male
''Hoploclonia'' is the only genus of the tribe Hoplocloniini and brings together relatively small and darkly coloured Phasmatodea species. Characteristics The representatives of this genus are very small with 35 to 40 mm in the male and 45 to 55 mm in the female sex. Both sexes are always wingless and very thorny. The thorns form a characteristic triangle on the mesothorax. At the front two corner points are created by a pair of widely spaced and, in the females, very flat thorns. While these converge at the front transversely to the body axis and thus form one side of the triangle, the third corner point and the other two sides are created by the thorn edges that taper off flat towards the rear. In this area the males still have a distinct, very close pair of thorns. They are dominated by dark brown, almost black tones, which are complemented by yellow-orange species-specific drawings. The mostly lighter females are less prickly and much more variable in color. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoploclonia Cuspidata
''Hoploclonia cuspidata'' is a stick insect species native to the north of Borneo and is also called Brunei Hoploclonia stick insect. Taxonomy When Josef Redtenbacher described the species in 1906, both males and females were available to him. However, he only recognized that the female belongs to the genus ''Hoploclonia'' established by Carl Stål in 1875. This was until then monotypical. Although both males and females were known from the hitherto only representative of the genus, namely '' Hoploclonia gecko'', Redtenbacher described the male of ''Hoploclonia cuspidata'' as ''Dares (Epidares) haematacanthus''. The type material was long thought to be lost. It was rediscovered in 2000 by Oliver Zompro. One lectotype is deposited in the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden and another syntype in the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Philip Edward Bragg first transferred the species to the genus '' Epidares'' in 1998. After the type material was available, he synonymized the species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoploclonia Gecko
''Hoploclonia gecko'' is a relatively small, spiny and darkly colored stick insect species that is native to the northwest of Borneo. Taxonomy Alfred Russel Wallace collected in Sarawak in 1858 a number ofspecimens, but did not leave any more precise information about the location. John Obadiah Westwood described these the following year as ''Acanthoderus gecko''. When describing it, both males and females were available to him. Because of the specific epithet chosen by Westwood, it is also called "Gecko Stick Insect". In 1875 Carl Stål established the genus ''Hoploclonia'' for this species alone, which became the type species as ''Hoploclonia gecko''. The genus remained monotypical until the description of ''Hoploclonia cuspidata'' in 1906. In 1995 a female of Philip Edward Bragg from the specimens collected by Wallace was selected as lectotype. It is deposited together with two male paralectotypes in the Natural History Museum. Other specimens collected by Wallace are kept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoploclonia Abercrombiei
''Hoploclonia abercrombiei'' is a stick insect species known from the northwest of Borneo, more precisely from only one place in the Malaysia, Malay state Sarawak. Distribution, discovery and taxonomy The first male of this species was discovered in 1992 by Philip Edward Bragg in the Niah National Park in Sarawak near the Niah Caves, Great Cave of Niah. However, Bragg initially thought it was a male of ''Hoploclonia cuspidata'', from which it differed mainly in the missing pair of spines on the fourth Abdomen (insect anatomy), abdominal segment and the slightly different coloration. After a closer examination, he and Ian Abercrombie decided in 1994 to look again at the same place, where three more males and three females were found, two of them copulating pairs. In the following year Bragg described the species and dedicated the species name to Ian Abercrombie. A female is deposited as a holotype in the Natural History Museum, London. ''Hoploclonia abercrombiei'' and the ''Hopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
