Anchiale maculata (Olivier, 1792)

Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), Zootaxa 5073 (1), pp. 1-189 : 89

Anchiale maculata (Olivier, 1792)

Further material examined [1 ♂, 4 ♀♀]: 1 ♀: O-Sulawesi, Prov. Sulawesi Tengah, Banggai-Inseln, W-Peleng Island, Buko District , Tinanasu, IV.2011 [coll. FH, No 0828-23] ; 2 ♀♀: O-Sulawesi, Prov. Sulawesi Tengah, Bang-gai-Inseln, W-Peleng Island, Buko District , btw. Tatendeng village and Eben village 400–550 m, IX.2011 [coll. FH, No’s 0828-24 to 25] ; 1 ♀: E-Sulawesi, Prov. Sulawesi Tengah, Banggai Islands , W-Peleng Island, Buko District , btw. Tatendeng village and Eben village 400–550 m, IX.2011 [ IMQC] ; 1 ♂: Indonesien: Peleng Id., S of Sulawesi, Tinanasu , IV.2011 [coll. OC] .

Comments: Hennemann, Conle & Suzuki (2015) have presented a discussion of the intraspecific variability of the different island populations of this widely distributed species along with illustrations of specimens from various islands. The distributional range of A. maculata comprises almost the whole of Wallacea from Peleng in the west and Morotai in the north towards the Kei Islands in the south-east. At that time only one ♂ was known from the island of Peleng, but which is now supplemented by several ♀♀. These specimens are morphologically most similar to examples from Sanana, the south-eastern most island of the Sula Islands. These ♀♀ have the mesonotum just sparsely supplied with low granules and rather large cerci, that reach to the apex of the subgenital plate and are just scarcely shorter than the anal segment. One specimen in the author’s collection (coll. FH) has large pale cream markings on the mesonotum and all femora distinctly annulated with white. Body length (including cerci) of ♀♀ 169.0–180.0 mm.