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Mearnsiana
''Mearnsiana'' is a genus of stick insects, which is native to the Philippine islands Mindanao, Leyte and Dinagat. Description The genus is considered the most colorful of the subfamily Obriminae or the entire family Heteropterygidae. The species are wingless in both sexes. The males of both so far described species have long antennae. They reach in body length, with '' Mearnsiana maranao'' being the smaller and spinier species. The basic color is olive green. meso- and metathorax are colored orange-brown above and below and have two pairs of slightly darker bumps on the upper side, which in ''Mearnsiana maranao'' are formed as longer tips. In the males of '' Mearnsiana bullosa'' the abdomen is conspicuously colored yellow, red and green. The live color of ''Mearnsiana maranao'' is not known, just like its females. The long females of ''Mearnsiana bullosa'' are colored bright green on the top or a more plain green-brown. Legs, antennae and ovipositor spines are ligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mearnsiana Maranao
''Mearnsiana'' is a genus of stick insects The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as ..., which is native to the Philippine islands Mindanao, Leyte and Dinagat. Description The genus is considered the most colorful of the subfamily Obriminae or the entire Family (biology), family Heteropterygidae. The species are wingless in both sexes. The males of both so far described species have long Antenna (biology), antennae. They reach in body length, with ''Mearnsiana maranao'' being the smaller and spinier species. The basic color is olive green. mesothorax, meso- and metathorax are colored orange-brown above and below and have two pairs of slightly darker bumps on the upper side, which in ''Mearnsiana maranao'' are formed as longer tips. In the males of ''Mearnsiana bullos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mearnsiana Bullosa
''Mearnsiana bullosa'', occasionally referred to by the common name Manobos stick-insect,is a species of stick insect in the family Heteropterygidae. It is native to the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Leyte. Until 2023 it was the only described representative of the genus ''Mearnsiana''. Description The species, wingless and thornless in both sexes, is the most colorful of the known representatives of the family Heteropterygidae. The body surface is shiny. The long males have an olive green basic color. The joint membranes and partly also the margins of the individual segments are colored bright yellow. meso- and metathorax are colored orange-brown above and below and have two pairs of slightly darker humps on the upper side. The coloring of the upper side of the abdomen is striking. A wide yellow vertical stripe runs along its entire length, flanked by two green stripes and two red stripes towards the edge. With more than the antennae are good body length. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obrimini
The Obrimini are the most species-rich tribe of the Phasmatodea family of the Heteropterygidae native to Southeast Asia. Description The Obrimini differ from their sister tribe the Hoplocloniini by the structure of the secondary ovipositor at the abdomen of the females, which surrounds the actual ovipositor. It is formed in the Obrimini dorsally from the eleventh abdominal tergum called supraanal plate or epiproct, while in the Hoplocloniini it originated from the tenth tergum. Distribution area The distribution area of the Obrimini extends from Borneo to the east and includes the Philippines, Sulawesi, most of the Moluccas and New Guinea. Farthest east lies with Viti Levu, the main island of the Fiji group, the distribution area of ''Pterobrimus depressus''. Taxonomy Brunner von Wattenwyl built in 1893 for the genera already described '' Obrimus'', '' Hoploclonia'', ''Tisamenus'', ''Pylaemenes'', '' Dares'' and ''Datames'' (today a synonym to ''Pylaemenes'') the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteropterygidae
The Heteropterygidae is a family of stick insects belonging to the suborder Euphasmatodea. Species can be found in Australasia, East and Southeast Asia. More than 130 valid species have been described (at the end of 2020). Characteristics Size The Heteropterygidae include both very small and very large and massive species. The representatives of the Dataminae are consistently rather small. So ''Planispectrum'' species are only long. The largest Dataminae species, with a maximum length of , are within the genera ''Pylaemenes'' and ''Orestes''. While the subfamily Obriminae with almost in ''Tisamenus hebardi'' and up to in ''Trachyaretaon carmelae'' shows a wide range of sizes, the Heteropteryginae are considered rather large. Indeed, there are very large and massive species, such as the up to long ''Heteropteryx dilatata'' known as Malayan jungle nymph, but also small species such as those in the male sex only long ''Haaniella parva''. Morphology A common autapomorphic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trachyaretaon
''Trachyaretaon'' is a genus of Phasmatodea, stick insects native to the Philippines. Description The representatives of this genus correspond in the Habitus (biology), habitus typical representatives of the Obrimini and are very similar in appearance to the species of the genera ''Aretaon (insect), Aretaon'' and ''Sungaya''. Like these, they are wingless in either sex. The males of the previously known species are around in length and are smaller than the females which are in length. In egg-laying adult females, the Abdomen (insect anatomy), abdomen in the middle is clearly thickened in height and width and thus almost circular in cross-section. As with the other genera of the Obriminae, a secondary ovipositor at the end of the abdomen surrounds the actual ovipositor. It is ventral formed from the eighth sternite, which is called subgenital plate or operculum and Dorsal (anatomy), dorsally from the eleventh tergum, which here is called the supraanal plate or epiproct. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eubulides (insect)
''Eubulides'' is a Phasmatodea, stick insect genus native to the Philippines. Characteristics The representatives of ''Eubulides'' are medium-sized, very slender and only slightly or hardly spined Obriminae species. The males reach , the females in length. The head is flat and, like the pronotum, hardly reinforced or only covered with small tubercles. Only on the frontal margin of the elongated mesonotum spines may be present. There may be a few tubercles on the rear of the mesonotum. The middle insect leg#femur, femura are clearly toothed, the hind legs very strongly toothed. The secondary ovipositor of the females is designed as a curved laying sting. Distribution The previously known distribution area of the genus includes the Philippine islands Luzon, Leyte, Mindanao and Polillo Islands, Polillo. On Luzon there are representatives in the provinces Ilocos Norte, Mountain Province, Kalinga (province), Kalinga, Quirino, Ifugao, Quezon, Camarines Sur and Nueva Vizcaya, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ... Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obriminae
The Obriminae are the most species-rich subfamily of the Phasmatodea family Heteropterygidae native to Southeast Asia. It is divided into two tribe. Taxonomy The tribe Obrimini was created by Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1893 for the genera '' Obrimus'', '' Hoploclonia'', ''Tisamenus'', ''Pylaemenes'', ''Dares'' and ''Datames'' (today synonym to ''Pylaemenes'') (abbreviated there as Obrimi.). Lawrence Bruner raised the Obrimini to the rank of a family in 1915. Heinrich Hugo Karny renamed the Obrimini or the Obrimidae in 1923 to Therameninae. In the introduction to his work he justified the renaming by saying that Brunner von Wattenwyl and Josef Redtenbacher when naming the subfamilies they established – and as such he also considers the tribes described by both of them – not always taking into account the genera described first. At least in the case of the Obriminae this is not true, since both the genus ''Obrimus'' and ''Theramenes'' was built in 1875 by Carl Stål. The name The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesothorax
The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the mesonotum (dorsal), the mesosternum (ventral), and the mesopleuron (lateral) on each side. The mesothorax is the segment that bears the forewings in all winged insects, though sometimes these may be reduced or modified, as in beetles (Coleoptera) or Dermaptera, in which they are sclerotized to form the elytra ("wing covers"), and the Strepsiptera, in which they are reduced to form halteres that attach to the mesonotum. All adult insects possess legs on the mesothorax. In some groups of insects, the mesonotum is hypertrophied, such as in Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera), in which the anterior portion of the mesonotum (called the mesoscutum, or simply "scutum") forms most of the dorsal surface of the thorax. In these orders, there is also typically a small sclerite attached to the mesonotum that covers the wing ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antenna (biology)
Antennae ( antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods. Antennae are connected to the first one or two segments of the arthropod head. They vary widely in form but are always made of one or more jointed segments. While they are typically sensory organs, the exact nature of what they sense and how they sense it is not the same in all groups. Functions may variously include sensing touch, air motion, heat, vibration (sound), and especially smell or taste. Antennae are sometimes modified for other purposes, such as mating, brooding, swimming, and even anchoring the arthropod to a substrate. Larval arthropods have antennae that differ from those of the adult. Many crustaceans, for example, have free-swimming larvae that use their antennae for swimming. Antennae can also locate other group members if the insect lives in a group, like the ant. The common ancestor of all arthropods likely had one pair of uniramous (unbranched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trachyaretaon Negrosanon
''Trachyaretaon negrosanon'' is a stick insect species from the family Heteropterygidae native to Negros. Characteristics In habit the species corresponds to typical representatives of the Obrimini, but shows very characteristic features in both sexes. The females have a mossy green-brown overall color and reach a length of around . Unique is a bright greenish-white spot located on the fourth tergite of the abdomen, which is wider at the base and narrows towards the posterior edge of the tergite. Rarely there is a small spot on the fifth tergite. The secondary ovipositor is formed dorsally from the supraanal plate ( epiproct), which is laterally straight and about 1.8 times longer than the anal segment. Longitudinally it is weakly pointed and gradually tapers to a bluntly rounded to weakly notched tip. The ventral subgenital plate of the ovopositor is long, lanceolate and clearly keeled in the basal half. It is pointed and overhangs the tip of the epiproct. The males a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
