Orestes japonicus ( Ho, 2016 ) Joachim Bresseel & Jérôme Constant, 2018

Joachim Bresseel & Jérôme Constant, 2018, The Oriental stick insect genus Orestes Redtenbacher, 1906: Taxonomical notes and six new species from Vietnam (Phasmida: Heteropterygidae: Dataminae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 58, pp. 1-62 : 59

Orestes japonicus ( Ho, 2016) comb. nov.

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Pylaemenes japonicus HO, 2016: 11 ; figs 7–10, 15–16 [described and illustrated].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. (4♂♂, 2 ♀♀, eggs): JAPAN: 2♂♂: Japan, Okinawa, leg. Kazuhisa Kuribayashi, ex breeding Holger Dräger 2016 [RBINS]; 2♂♂, 2 ♀♀, eggs: Japan, Okinawa, ex breeding Illy Klimmert [RBINS].

NOTE. The species is here transferred to Orestes based on the examination of the illustrations presented by HO (2016) and of cultured specimens from Okinawa Island. Males and females have the typical dorsally flattened and apically straight anal segment. Females have the widest part of the body at the posterior margin of tergum IV. Those characters place the species in Orestes and it is very similar to O. dittmari sp. nov. and O. shirakii ( Ho & Brock, 2013) comb. nov.