CLITUMNINAE Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893

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-

Subfamily CLITUMNINAE Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893

Tribe Clitumnini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893

3. Ramulus sp. (Figure 10, female).

Description (female): Medium size, slender body, all parts of body covered by dirty white and brownish to blackish spots. Entire thorax and abdomen with a median fine carina. Head: elongated, narrowed behind, with a transverse white band in front of paired short tuberclular spine; adjoining area of spine pair is black; a median fine white line medially on vertex. Antennae 22-23 segmented; 1 st one flat and oval elongated, 2 nd a little longer than broad, 3 rd to penultimate uniformly long; last one elongated and black; distal segments blackish with a longitudinal black line dorsally. Eyes blackish and rounded. Prothorax rectangular, a little broader behind. Mesothorax elongated, rounded, carinated, smooth and a little wider at posterior area. Metathorax smooth. Medain segment about 1/5 th of metathotax. Abdominal segment finely carinated; gradually very little longer up to 5 th, 6-7 th equal 9 th smallest; last three segments triangular particularly 9 th and 10 th; 10 th elongated, narrowed distally where it is bifid near tip to form two close beset conical ends; ventrally 2 nd segment proximally with distinct paired white spots formed into one patch. Preopercular organ absent. Operculum whitish with longitudinal brown lines, with a median black line; proximal ½ flat, distal ½ compressed boat form, apex cone form, reaches ½ of 10 th segment. Cerci short, rounded, shorter than apex of 10 th segment.

Supra anal plate short, rounded, hidden beneath 10 th segment. Legs: right fore leg absent and that of left deformed (due to regeneration). Rest legs without distinct bands. Hind femora and tibae smooth; middle femora smooth; left middle tibia at dorsal basal 1/4 th with a small black conical lobule; right middle leg lost. Total length 70; antennae 6.5; head 4; prothorax 2.8; mesothorax

14.5; metathorax 9.5; median segment 2.5; middle leg

12.5+11.5+6; hind leg 15.5+14.8+7.

Male: the specimen is a nymph. Colouration of antennae and body similar to female. Its right fore leg lost. Entire length of body finely carinated. Head without conical tubercular spine pair (seems not yet developed); with four longitudinal brown bands on dorsal aspect of head; each band with fine whitish spots. Mesothorax and metathorax with few minute and blunt tubercles. All legs smooth; with 6-7 black bands. The five distal segments appear triangular in outline rather than round. 10 th tricarinated, apex staraight and undivided. Supraanal plate conical exposed a little beyond the end of 10 th segment. Cerci triangular, extend beyond the end of 10 th segment. Poculum grooved in middle; with median black line, apex divided; poculum not swollen in this spirit preserved specimen.

Materials examined: 1 female, 12.xii.2013, 11º44’27.6” N, 92º39’14.3” E, 92 m, Ferrargunj, Check post, 15 km towards north from Port Blair , South Andaman, coll. G. Srinivasan. 1 male (nymph), 13.xii. 2013, 11º43’52.3” N & 92º39’12.1” E, 102 m, Ferrargunj, South Andaman , Jarwa Reserved Forests, coll. G. Srinivasan.

Remarks: The specimen is a nymph.

Superfamily PHYLLIOIDEA Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Family PHYLLIIDAE Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Subfamily PHYLLIINAE Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Tribe Phylliini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Genus Phyllium Illiger, 1798

Subgenus Pulchriphyllium Griffini, 1898

4. Phyllium (Pulchriphyllium) bioculatum Gray, 1832 * (Figure 11a male; 11b, c, female).

1832. Phyllium bioculatum Gray, In Griffith & Pidgeon. The animal kingdom arranged in conformita with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier. 15:191, pl. 63:3.

2003. Phyllium (Pulchriphyllium) bioculatum Brock, Gale Research Staff. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 226, Figure 1 , 231.

Description: The female abdomen is somewhat similar to Ph. (Ph.) westwoodii . The terminal triangle is formed by last two segments which in Ph. (Ph.) westwoodii is by last three segments. The elytra reaches middle of 8 th segment and in Ph. (Ph.) westwoodi , it reaches end of 7 th abdominal segment. In the elytra of ♀, the ulnare and discoidal veins are almost contiguous (distinctly separated in Ph. (Ph.) westwoodii ). Measurements: male: total length 53, antenna 27, fore wing 11, hind wing 32, max. width of abdomen 21; female: total length 85, antenna 4, fore wing 53, max. width of abdomen 42.5.

Materials examined: 1 male, 09.iii.2016, 10º73’26.0” N, 92º56’88.9” E, 1 m, 6 km interior to Vivekanandpur near a nallah, Little Andaman, at light (3.30 am), coll. G. Srinivasan; 1 male, 05.iii.2016, 10º68’25.9” N, 92º56’92.8”E, 49 m, 14km forest check post, Little Andaman, at light (4.00 am), coll. G. Srinivasan; 1 male, Mini Bay , South Andaman ,

18.9.1994, coll. H. L. Das ( Andaman Regional Station collection); 1 male nymph, Bamboo flat (Ograbraj), South Andaman , 20.2.1982, coll. D. K. Hore (in bush), ( Andaman Regional Station collection); 1 female, Dusnabad , Port Blair, South Andaman , 25.03.1994, coll. Smt. K. Devi (on wing), ( Andaman Regional Station collection) .

Distribution: India: Assam ( Bragg, 2001), South Andaman and Little Andaman, (literature record is “ India oriental”); Bangladesh (Sylhet); Borneo, China, Java, Mauritius, Peninsular Malaysia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sumatra.

Remarks: The subgenus and the species are new record from the islands. Indian record for this species is from Assam and also from adjoining Sylhet of Bangladesh. However the species has been recorded from several islands nearby the present survey areas. The end of female abdomen is obtusely rounded at the junction of 7 th and 8 th segments. This is however, completely different in female of synonym Phyllium magdelainei (holotype, source PSF). Bragg (2001) and Brock (1999) have explained the situation). Similarly the length of female elytra is variable; it may reach the middle of 7 th or the junction of 7 th and 8 th segments. The picture of male available at PSF clearly shows the length of hind wing is highly variable; in our male specimen it reaches nearly the end of abdomen. The shape of the abdomen and the three terminal segments in males studied are slightly different; the three terminal segments are smooth round in one while indented in other.

Figures

Figure 1. Anaxarcha graminea, male, 2. Acromantis nicobarica, female, 3. Memantis gardeneri, male, 4. Hierodula patellifera, female, 5. Hierodula tenuidentata, female, 6. Statilia maculata, male, 7(a, b, c) Sipyloidea atricoxis, male, Figure 8(a, b) Sipyloidea atricoxis, female.