Sungaya inexpectata Zompro, 1996

Sungaya inexpectata Zompro, 1996 View in CoL

( Fig. 54 & 71H)

Sungaya inexpectata Zompro, 1996: 450 View in CoL , figs. 1-3.

HT, ♀: Philippinen, Luzon, Batangas, Tagaytay, Sungay 400 m, 7.X. 1995 leg. O. Zompro [ OZ] ;

PT, ♀: Philippinen, Luzon, Batangas, Tagaytay, Sungay 400 m, 8.IX. 1995 leg. O. Zompro [ OZ] ;

PT, 2 ♀: F1-generation captive reared from type-locality [OZ].

- Clark-Sellick, 1998: 208. (Micropylar plate of eggs)

- Zompro, 1999: 46. (Notes on culture)

- Zompro, 2000: 63.

- Brock, 2003: 41, fig. (Notes on rearing)

- Whiting, Bradler & Maxwell, 2003: 265.

- Zompro, 2004: 217, fig.

- Delfosse, 2004: 3. (Notes on rearing)

- Otte & Brock, 2005

- Delfosse, 2007: 23. (Notes on rearing)

- Lit & Eusebio, 2008: 38, figs. (in part). (Notes on distribution)

- Harman, 2012: 18. (Note on culture origin)

– A. Habitus dorsal view [ FH 0370-7 ]. – B. Habitus dorsolateral view [ FH 0370-7 ]. – C. Habitus ventral view ( FH 0370-7 ]. – D. Head and thorax of paratype in lateral view [ FH 0370-1 ]. – E. Terminalia in lateral view. – F. Terminalia in dorsal view. – G. Terminalia in ventral view.

- Dräger, 2013: 3, fig. 3.

- Brock & Büscher, 2022: 521, figs.

[Not: Sungaya inexpectata, Lit & Eusebio, 2008: 38 – The specimens from Mount Cayapo, Bataan Province most likely represent S. aeta n. sp.]

Material examined

12 ♀, 1 ♀ (penultimate instar), 6 ♀ (juvenile): ex Zucht: F. Hennemann, urspr.: Philippinen (Luzon), 1998; Herkunft: Philippinen, Luzon , Batangas, Tagaytay , Sungay , 400m, leg. O.Zompro 7.X.1995 [FHNo’s 0370-1to 19] .

Remarks. – Zompro(1996:450) originally described this speciesfrom ♀ and eggs collected in 1995 in the Batangas Province southeast of Manila, Luzon. Unfortunately, all type-specimens are deposited within the authors collection and thus not available for detailed examination. However, captive reared specimens that are offspring from the type specimens are at hand from the authors collection. Molecular data of Sungaya populations from different localities have shown all to be not conspecific with the type-species S. inexpectata and to represent separate species. This is here supported by detailed morphological examination and comparison with the examples of inexpectata in the authors collection, with two of the populations described as two new species ( S. aeta n. sp. and S. ibaloi n. sp.). Since the supposed ♂ described by Lit & Eusebio (2008) from Mount Cayapo, Limay, Bataan Province have genetically proven to be specifically distinct from inexpectata , the ♂ of Zompro’s species is still not known and the type-locality must be regarded the so far only known locality.

The original parthenogenetic culture stock was included on the phasmid Study Group culture-list as PSG culture No. 195.A plethora of papers (Zompro, 1999; Brock, 2003; Delfosse, 2004; Delfosse, 2007) have dealt with the captive breedingand biologyof S. inexpectata . Only selected references are listed above and the full references may be referred to in the Phasmida Species File (http:// Phasmida .SpeciesFile.org). Body length of ♀ 76.0-85.0 mm.

Distribution. – Central Luzon, Province Batangas.