Uma nova espécie de Cladomorphus Gray, 1835 (Phasmatidae, Cladomorphinae) de Minas Gerais, Brasil

Cladomorphus petropolisensis, a New Species of Stick Insect from the Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“…All of them lend support to the existence of a new species distinct from C. phyllinus . The characteristics observed for the C. phyllinus specimen matches with the ones already described in the literature by distinct authors [ 2 , 21 , 25 , 26 ]. Nevertheless, previous authors mentioned the intraspecific variation observed in the colour pattern of this species.…”

“…Besides having a much smaller size than C. phyllinus [ 21 , 25 , 26 ], the tegument of the mesonotum of the holotype of the proposed new species is spinier than that observed for C. phyllinus , with three more prominent spines instead of two ( Figure 2 b,d). In addition, two spines were also observed on the femora of the hind legs instead of one as described in C. phyllinus ( Figure 3 ), and its ovipositor is relatively longer than the one observed for C. phyllinus ( Figure 4 ).…”

“…The collections were authorised by the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment (MMA), through the Biodiversity Authorization and Information System (SISBIO), process number 12123. The first collected specimen was identified as C. phyllinus according to the literature [ 2 , 21 , 25 , 26 ]. However, the second one did not fit the general characteristics of C. phyllinus .…”

“…The morphology of C. phyllinus is relatively well known [ 21 , 25 ], including a review of the subfamily [ 26 ]. Marked sexual dimorphism can be observed in the adult: winged males are significantly smaller in size than females and can reach up to 13 cm, while females can reach 23 cm in length and are apterous [ 21 ].…”

Description of the female, egg and first instar nymph of the stick insect Paraphasma paulense (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) from Southeast Brazil

“…Most of the information on stick insects from the country is limited to original descriptions of species, mainly in the works by Gray (1835), Burmeister (1838), Westwood (1859), Bates (1865) and Kirby (1904), in the monograph by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1907) and Redtenbacher (1906Redtenbacher ( , 1908, and in various papers by Toledo Piza (1936, 1937, 1938, 1944, among others). Recently, only a few studies have addressed Brazilian stick insects, such as: three broad taxonomic revisions that included some Brazilian taxa (Zompro 2001, 2004, Hennemann et al 2016; the redescription of Tithonophasma tithonus (Gray, 1835) (Lima et al 2013); and the descriptions of one new species in the genus Cladomorphus Gray, 1835 (Kumagai and Fonseca 2009), and another in Agrostia Redtenbacher, 1906(Heleodoro et al 2017. Furthermore, few Brazilian species have the egg described in spite of the importance of egg morphology and egg-laying mechanism in Phasmatodea taxonomy and phylogenetics (Sellick 1997, Clark Sellick 1998, Zompro 2004, Goldberg et al 2015.…”