Medaura austeni (Wood-Mason, 1875)

Qian, YuHan, Xie, ChongXin & Li, Cui, 2022, First record of the genus Medaura Stal (Phasmatodea, Phasmatidae, Clitumninae) from China, with description of a new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 96341-96341 : 96341

Medaura austeni (Wood-Mason, 1875)

Medaura Medaura austeni Lonchodes austeni : Wood-Mason 1875: 216. [original description].

Medaura Medaura austeni Promachus austeni : Kirby 1904: 326. [transferred genus].

Medaura Medaura austeni Medaura austeni : Brunner von Wattenwyl 1907: 241. [transferred genus]. Mandal and Yadav 2010: 31. [Redescribed from literature].

Diagnosis

As the type specimen of Medaura austeni , deposited in NZSI, has been lost ( Mukherjee and Sirinivasan 2013), we did not provide the photos here. From literature, only the male characters were described including: head and thorax with minute granules; mesonotum, metanotum and abdomen with carina and strong spines; anal segment small, fused at base, rounded; subgenital plate compressed and hood-shaped; middle and posterior femora at base below with single spine ( MandaI and Yadav 2010).