| Heterocopus | |
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| Heterocopus leprosus, picture of a female from the original description by Redtenbacher | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Family: | Heteropterygidae |
| Tribe: | Obrimini |
| Genus: | Heterocopus Redtenbacher, 1906 |
| Species: | H. leprosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Heterocopus leprosus Redtenbacher, 1906 | |
Heterocopus is a monotypic stick insect genus, containing Heterocopus leprosus as the only valid species. [1]
The few known specimens of the genus are medium-sized and completely wingless, hardly spined species. They are similar to the genera Eubulides and Theramenes . In contrast to these, the females of Heterocopus do not have a curved, but a straight and relatively long secondary ovipositor. They reach a length of 57 to 69 millimetres (2.2 to 2.7 in). From the mesonotum over the metanotum to the end of the abdomen there is a distinct ridge running down the middle of the body. Only the spines above the rear coxae (supracoxal spines) are recognizable on the upper side of the body. On the underside, smaller spines are present on both the sternites of the thorax and the abdomen. The legs are more or less spined on the femurs and tibiae. Males are around 44 millimetres (1.7 in) long. [2] [3]
Josef Redtenbacher described the genus Heterocopus in 1906 for Heterocopus leprosus, which he also described based on a female. At the same time he transferred the 1859 by John Obadiah Westwood as Acanthoderus ranarius described species in this genus. [2] The latter was already in 1939 by James Abram Garfield Rehn and his son John W. H. Rehn transferred in the genus Ilocano . Thus, with Heterocopus leprosus, Rehn and Rehn name only one species in the genus Heterocopus. [4] Ilocano has been a synonym since 2021 to Tisamenus , [5] the species described by Westwood has been included in this genus since 2004 and consequently as Tisamenus ranarius . [3] Two females preserved in alcohol in the Natural History Museum, Vienna and another dry prepared female in the Zoological Museum Hamburg deposited. All three originally come from the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg. A male of Heterocopus leprosus was first described in 1950 by Cornelis Joseph Maria Willemse. It is deposited in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. [1] Already in 1937 Klaus Günther described with Heterocopus carli another species of the genus, which differs from Heterocopus leprosus in the absence of spines on the femurs and tibiae. For each of these, a male and female syntype are deposited in the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden. Oliver Zompro transferred the species to the genus Pachymorpha in 1998, a genus with more stick-like insects. Since it is kept there to this day, Heterocopus is still monotypic. [6]
The three female syntypes are from the Palau Islands in the east of Micronesia. [3] [4]
The Heteropterygidae is a family of stick insects belonging to the suborder Euphasmatodea. Species can be found in Australasia, East and Southeast Asia. More than 130 valid species have been described.
The Obriminae are the most species-rich subfamily of the Phasmatodea family Heteropterygidae native to Southeast Asia. It is divided into two tribe.
Datamini is the only tribe within the subfamily of the Dataminae from the order of the Phasmatodea. The representatives of this subfamily are on average not as large as those of the other two subfamilies belonging to the family of Heteropterygidae.
Heteropterygini is the only tribe within the subfamily of the Heteropteryginae. With 19 representatives described, this subfamily includes the fewest species of the three subfamilies, but includes the largest and most striking species of the family.
The genus Planispectrum combines very small and compact species from Southeast Asia.
Hoploclonia is the only genus of the tribe Hoplocloniini and brings together relatively small and darkly coloured Phasmatodea species.
The Obrimini are the most species-rich tribe of the Phasmatodea family of the Heteropterygidae native to Southeast Asia.
The genus Tisamenus native to the Philippines combines small to medium-sized species of stick insects.
Aretaon is a genus of stick insects native to Borneo and the Philippine island Palawan.
Eubulides is a stick insect genus native to the Philippines.
Aretaon muscosus is a stick insect species from the family Heteropterygidae, which is native to Borneo.
Tisamenus serratorius is a stick insect species that occurs on the Philippine island Luzon.
Tisamenus deplanatus is a stick insect species native to the Philippine islands Luzon and Mindanao occurs.
Tisamenus fratercula is a stick insect species native to the Philippine island Luzon.
Hoploclonia cuspidata is a stick insect species native to the north of Borneo and is also called Brunei Hoploclonia stick insect.
Tisamenus clotho is a stick insect species native to the Philippines.
Stenobrimus is a genus of medium-sized stick insects native to the Philippines.
Pterobrimus is a monotypic genus of stick insects (Phasmatodea), containing the species Pterobrimus depressus, wich is native to Fiji.
Tisamenus draconina is a species of stick insect in the family Heteropterygidae native to the Philippines.
Tisamenus ranarius is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae native to the Philippines.
Data related to Heterocopus at Wikispecies
Media related to Heterocopus leprosus at Wikimedia Commons