| Tisamenus asper | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Family: | Heteropterygidae |
| Subfamily: | Obriminae |
| Tribe: | Obrimini |
| Genus: | Tisamenus |
| Species: | T. asper |
| Binomial name | |
| Tisamenus asper Bolívar, 1890 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Tisamenus asper is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the Philippine island Luzon. [1] [2] [3]
Only a few specimens of this Tisamenus species are known so far. Ignacio Bolívar mentions characteristics of both male and female in the species description, but at the end only lists measurement data for one specimen without mentioning the gender. He states the total length as 50 millimetres (2.0 in). The species is very similar to Tisamenus serratorius . In Tisamenus asper the mesopleurae are thorny. On the first segments of the abdomen there are small round tubercules. In Tisamenus serratorius there are pairs of spines directed diagonally to the side, the length of which decreases from front to back. On the head there are postorbital ridges with finer teeth at the front and coarser teeth at the back. [2] [3] [4]
Bolívar described the species in 1890 under the current name. [2] The species name “asper” is borrowed from Latin and means rough. A male and a female syntype are deposited in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. While the status of the male is questionable, the female labeled by Bolivar is certainly a syntype of Tisamenus asper. It is missing some tarsi and, like the male, the ends of the antennae. [1] [5]
James Abram Garfield Rehn and his son John William Holman Rehn synonymized in 1939 the genus Tisamenus with the genus Hoploclonia . At the same time, they divided the genus into different groups according to morphological aspects. In the so-called Serratoria group, they placed Hoploclonia aspera, the eponymous Hoploclonia serratoria (today Tisamenus serratorius), Hoploclonia clotho (today Tisamenus clotho ) and Hoploclonia atropos (today Tisamenus atropos ), species with distinct lateral spines along the edges of the thorax and one extending to about half of the mesonotum, isosceles triangle on the anterior mesothorax. [3]
The original name was officially restored in 2004 by Oliver Zompro, who transferred or retransferred all Filipino species previously listed in Hoploclonia to the genus Tisamenus. [6]
Bolívar names Mazarredo, Angat, in the province of Bulacan as the origin of the animals he examined. [2] According to the label of the female syntype, this is Mount Angat. [5]
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.
Hoploclonia is the only genus of the tribe Hoplocloniini and brings together relatively small and darkly coloured Phasmatodea species.
The genus Tisamenus native to the Philippines combines small to medium-sized species of stick insects.
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.
Tisamenus clotho is a stick insect species native to the Philippines.
Heterocopus is a monotypic stick insect genus, containing Heterocopus leprosus as the only valid species.
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, which 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.
Tisamenus hebardi is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the north of the Philippine island of Luzon.
Tisamenus armadillo is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea) in the family Heteropterygidae, endemic to the Philippines.
Tisamenus hystrix is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the Philippines.
Tisamenus lachesis is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the Philippine Polillo Island.
Tisamenus cervicornis is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the Philippine island Luzon in the province of Camarines Sur.
Data related to Tisamenus asper at Wikispecies