Sipyloidea sp.

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-

2. Sipyloidea sp. ( Figure 9a, b, c, d, e , male)

Description: Medium size insect with all body parts totally green. Antennae longer than fore leg, basal two segments of antenna brownish patched. Ocelli present. Vertex below ocelli with five longitudinal spotted bands (each band brownish with paler spots). Prothorax with few minute tubercles. Mesothorax uniformly covered by minute granules, a little constricted in middle; mesosternum with paired longitudinal grooves and carinae with tubercles. Median segment a little shorter than metathorax. Legs: all smooth, green and hairy. Fore leg distinctly incurved at base. Abdominal segments: smooth; dorsally 1-4 blackish, ventrally green; of uniform with up to 7 th; 7-9 th at dorsal postero-median point with shallow transverse pit; 8 th wider posteriorly; 8-10 equally wide, much wider than end of 7 th; 9 th as long as wide; 10 th is a little longer than wide, feebly carinated, divided into widely rounded lateral lobes dentate inside. Cerci up to end of 10 th segment, rounded, apposite and straight. Poculum swollen, cup form, apex staright showing two strong genital spines. Elytra deep green coloured initially and later became brownish; oval, cup form and not elongated, apex straight and appears and very broadly rounded; hump obtuse and situated distal from of middle; costal area blackish but at distal part with a oblong pale patch; hump pale brown, with a blackish patch on distal slope anal area irregularly reticulated. Hind wing just exceeds the middle of 5 th abdominal segment; all longitudinal veins yellow green; costal cells are opaque green basally with 2-3 pale blackish spots; distal of costal area became pale blackish (whitish in fresh condition); anal area uniformly light green to colourless. Length- 52, antenna 35, fore leg 13.5+12+6, middle leg 7+6+5, hind leg 12.5+12.5+5.5, median segment 3.5, prothorax 2, mesothorax 9.5, metathorax 7, hind wing 25.

Material examined: 1 male, at light, North Andaman , Kalighat Government Hospital, 17.06.1994, coll. K. Chandra and party, Regd. No. 8682, (Andaman Regional Station collection) .

Remarks: The peculiar characters of the species are interesting. These are: presence of ocelli; green colour, sulcated dorsal hinder margin of segments 7-9 th; 10 th segment being carinated, obtuse divided, lobes conical and laterally deflexed down and poculum cup form, apex carinated conical.

Figures

Figure 9(a, b, c, d, e). Sipyloidea sp., male, 10. Ramulus sp., female, 11a. Ph. (Pul.) bioculatum, male, 11(b, c). Ph. (Pul.) bioculatum, female.