Anaxarcha graminea Stal, 1877

Srinivasan, G., Surendar, C., Chatterjee, Parbati & Mukherjee, Tushar Kanti, 2017, Additional records of Mantodea and Phasmida from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 264-264 : 264-

1. Anaxarcha graminea Stal, 1877 * ( Figure 1 , male).

1877. Anaxarcha graminea Stål, Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handlingar, Stockholm , 4 (10): 87.

Description: Abdomen ventrally light yellow. Four posterior legs pale straw coloured with scattered black spots, femora and tibiae triannulated by blackish patches, less distinct on femora; femora with a small elongated ventral lobule distally. Pronotum and fore legs uniformly pale yellow. Pronotum at margins with fine denticulation spotted black at tips. Antennal segments blackish. Frontal sclerite and vertex with scattered blackish spots; upper edge of frontal sclerite in middle sharp pointed. Both wings longer than abdomen. Length 22.5 mm; fore wing

17.0 mm.

Material examined: 3 males, 26.ii.2016, 06º80’82.7 ” N, 93º88’57.7 ” E, 18.0 m, Forest Beat House, Sastry Nagar, Great Nicobar Islands, at light, coll. G. Srinivasan.

Distribution: India: Kerala, Sikkim, West Bengal; Malayasia; Myanmar; Thailand.

Remarks: This genus and species are new record from the island.

Subfamily: ACROMANTINAE Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893

Tribe: Acromantini Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893

2. Acromantis nicobarica Mukherjee, 1995 (Figure 2, female).

1995. Acromantis nicobarica Mukherjee, Oriental Insects , 29: 211, Figure 14-16.

Description: Vertex grooved, with straight upper margin. No tubercle above ocelli. Pronotum marginated by dark tubercles. Pre-apical lobes blackish in four posterior femora. Spines of fore legs black at tips. Length 26 mm.

Material examined: 2 males, 1 female, 26.ii.2016, 06º81’51.5” N, 93º88’32.2” E, 37 m, Forest Beat House, Sastry Nagar, Great Nicobar Islands, coll. G. Srinivasan

Distribution: India: Nicobar Island.

Figures

Figure 1. Anaxarcha graminea, male, 2. Acromantis nicobarica, female, 3. Memantis gardeneri, male, 4. Hierodula patellifera, female, 5. Hierodula tenuidentata, female, 6. Statilia maculata, male, 7(a, b, c) Sipyloidea atricoxis, male, Figure 8(a, b) Sipyloidea atricoxis, female.