Medauroidea regula (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) Bresseel & Constant, 1893

Bresseel, Joachim & Constant, Jérôme, 1893, The new stick insect genus Medauromorpha gen. nov. with one new species from Vietnam and notes on Medauroidea Zompro, 2000 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Clitumninae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 45, pp. 1-38 : 1-38

Medauroidea regula (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) comb. nov.

Fig. 13 D–E .

Cuniculina regula BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL, 1907: 201 [described].

Cuniculina regula – BROCK, 1998: 53 [type specimens catalogued] .

Baculum reginum – BROCK, 1998: 53 [transferred to Baculum ; type specimens catalogued (typo for B. regulum )].

Ramulus regulus – OTTE & BROCK, 2005: 306 [transferred to Ramulus ; catalogued].

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. HT ♀ (nymph) of C. regula (examined from photographs, Fig. 13 D ): Tonkin, Than-Moi, Juni-Juli, H. Fruhstorfer ( NHMW) .

NOTES: (1) the species is here transferred to the genus Medauroidea based on the following characters: body elongate and slender; mid and hind legs mostly unarmed, showing only a few small triangular lobes, but no strongly enlarged lobe(s); dorsal part of head flattened with a pair of spines between the eyes; vertex slightly projecting posteriorly and split by a shallow median groove; dorsal part of thorax fairly smooth; sides of mesonotum with a row of small tubercles; subgenital plate convex, not reaching half length of anal segment; anal segment notched.

The genus Medauroidea is close to Medaura and Medauromorpha gen. nov. However, the females of Medaura Stål, 1875 have none of the abdominal terga two times longer than wide (in Medauroidea Zompro, 2000 several terga are distinctly longer than wide as it is the case in Medauroidea regula ). Females of Medauromorpha gen. nov. have the anal segment pointing obliquely downwards and strongly tectiform (horizontal and only slightly tectiform in Medauroidea ).

(2) BROCK (1998) erroneously listed two female ST for Cuniculina regula , although BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL (1907) based his description on a single female. One specimen is indeed a female (nymph) which is here recognized as the HT of the species. The second listed specimen is a male ST of Cuniculina regina and its status is treated supra .

Figures

Fig. 13. Type specimens in NHMW (©Natural History Museum Vienna, Orthoptera Image Collection, published with permission). A–C, Cuniculina regina Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907, LT ♂. A, lateral view. B, dorsal view. C, labels. D–E, Cuniculina regula Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907, HT ♀. D, lateral view. E, labels.