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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 4: 15 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.8
Page range: 433-445
Abstract views: 160
PDF downloaded: 13

A new species of Jeremia Redtenbacher (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Cladomorphinae), a stick insect from the northern Brazilian Amazon Basin

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Campus II; Av. André Araújo; 2936; 69060-001; Manaus; Brazil
Laboratório de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Roraima; Avenida Brasília; s/n; Campus Paricarana; CEP; 69310-000; Boa Vista; Roraima; Brazil
Coleção de Invertebrados; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Campus II; Av. André Araújo; 2936; 69060-001; Manaus; Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas; Instituto de Biologia; Minicampus; Av. Rodrigo Otávio; s/n; 69080-900; Manaus; Brazil
Phasmatodea new taxa Jeremia Neotropics phasmida taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Jeremia Redtenbacher (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Cladomorphinae) is described based on both male and female specimens from the northern Brazilian Amazon Basin and named Jeremia megaplax sp. nov. The new species can be differentiated from other species of this genus by the length of the female subgenital plate, which is two times longer than the length of tergites 8–10. Photos and description from subadult male and not fully developed eggs are also provided. The studied material is deposited at the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).

 

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