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Damasippus Stal 1875

Description

Damasippus Stål, 1875

Figs. 1 and 2A.

Type species: Damasippus westwoodii Stål, 1875 by subsequent designation of Kirby (1904).

Damasippus Stål, 1875: 60; Kirby 1904: 407 (list of synonyms of former Orthoptera); Redtenbacher 1906: 147 (taxonomy); Bradley & Galil 1977: 79 (taxonomic arrangement); Zompro 2004: 309 (phylogeny); Rafael & Heleodoro 2017 (Brazilian catalog); Brock et al. 2019 (world catalog).

Examined material.

Damasippus discoidalis: “Coll. Br. V., Theresopolis [Teresopolis, state of Rio de Janeiro], Michaelis col.” (2 \ syntypes NMW).

Damasippus spatulatus: “Serra de Macahe [Macae], Estado do Rio de Janeiro [state of Rio de Janeiro]” “ Damasippus spatulatus, Piza _ ” (_ holotype MZUSP).

D. westwoodii: “ Panama ” “ Boucard [col.]” (\ holotype NHRS).

Damasippus discoidalis: “Floresta da Tijuca, D. [istrito] Federal [Rio de Janeiro], Brasil, iii.1952, C. A. Campos Seabra” (\ MNRJ lost in the burning), “ Distrito Federal [Rio de Janeiro], Paineiras [host plant], 2.ii.1953, Newton Santos” (\ MNRJ lost in the burning), “S ao~ Paulo, Alto da Serra [Paranapiacaba]” (_ MZUSP).

Damasippus piceippenis: “S~ao Paulo, Horto da Cantareira, v.1982, E. Berti Filho col.” (\ ESALQ).

Damasippus spatulatus: “[Brazil], Fazenda Peneco, Itatiaia [Rio de Janeiro], 21.ii.1942 ”, “Maromba, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, 29.xii.1952, Leite, Seabra e Zikan col.” (2 _ MNRJ lost in the burning).

Diagnosis. Head subshiny, dorsally globose (Fig. 2A, B). Anterior femur with inconspicuous anterior and posterior expansions (Fig. 2C). Posterior wing with complete, widely arched infuscate band along posterior and anal margins, leaving a regular semicircular or somewhat irregular semicircular light-coloured area basally (Fig. 2A). Male genitalia with left and right posterior process, forming a bifurcated posterior margin on the genitalia; dorsal left sclerite slender, tubulliform, almost straight; basal pouch bacilliform (Fig. 2D, E).

Description of genitalia (_). Dorsal and ventral lobe continuously connected. Dorsal lobe with small, scattered setae, having the area near the basal pouch dorsally projected (Fig. 3A, B). Left and right posterior process present, forming a bifurcated posterior margin on the genitalia (Fig. 3A, B). Dorsal left sclerite slender, tubuliform, slightly curved (Fig. 3A, B). Basal pouch bacilliform, separated from dorsal lobe (Fig. 3A, B), having small, scattered bristles ventrally. Ventral lobe subdivided in small conspicuous lower lobule and upper lobule, having small scattered setae at the distal-most potion; lower lobule with small inconspicuous bifid digitiform projection.

Notes

Published as part of Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino & Rafael, Jose Albertino, 2020, Review of the genus Dinelytron Gray (Prisopodidae: Prisopodinae: Prisopodini), with a phylogenetic analysis of the genera of the Prisopodini, including the description of a new genus, pp. 37-80 in Zoologischer Anzeiger 285 on pages 38-40, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.01.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3711292

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNRJ , NHRS
Event date
1942-02-21
Family
Prisopodidae
Genus
Damasippus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phasmida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stal
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1942-02-21/1952-12-29
Taxonomic concept label
Damasippus Stal, 1875 sec. Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020

References

  • Stal, C., 1875. Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des orthopteres, decrits par Linne, de Geer et Thunberg. P. A. Norstedt & so a ner, Stockholm, p. 101.
  • Kirby, W. F., 1904. Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British museum (natural history), South Kensington, with descriptions of new genera and species-No. II. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Lond. 13, 429 - 444.
  • Redtenbacher, J., 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. I. Phasmidae, Areolatae. Verlag W. Engelmann, Leipzig.
  • Bradley, J. C., Galil, B. S., 1977. The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 79 (2), 176 - 208.
  • Zompro, O., 2004. Revision of the Genera of the Areolatae, Including the Status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Hamburg, Hamburg, p. 327.
  • Rafael, J. A., Heleodoro, R. A., 2017. Catalogo Taxon omico ^ da Fauna do Brasil: Phasmatodea. http: // fauna. jbrj. gov. br. (Accessed 30 June 2017).
  • Brock, P. D., Buscher, T., Baker, E., 2019. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World (Ver. 5.5). http: // phasmida. speciesfile. org /. (Accessed 8 December 2019).