Candovia karasi, Forni & Cussigh & Brock & Jones & Nicolini & Martelossi & Luchetti & Mantovani, 2023

CANDOVIA KARASI View in CoL BROCK & JONES SP. NOV.

(SUPPORTING INFORMATION, FIG. S8A, B)

[Karas’s stick insect]

Z o o b a n k r e g i s t r a t i o n: u r n: l s i d: z o o b a n k. org:act: EB26E337-EC01-401E-8F84-E01AE5B878DB.

Type material: Holotype: ♂, QUEENSLAND, Narrows Road, nr Baroon Pocket Dam, Montville , 26.6983˚S, 152.8656˚E, 10.xii.2009, A. Karas, DNA project JH-0070 ( QM) . Paratypes: QUEENSLAND: 1 ♀, same data, DNA project, JH-0068 ( QM) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, same data, DNA project JH-0069, JH-0066, JH-0067 ( NHMUK). (Note, this DNA project data was provisionally labelled Candovia sp. C .)

Overview of both sexes: Female body greenish brown, with black marks on head and pronotum, also remainder of thorax and abdomen. Male more colourful, greenish brown with green mesonotum and black marks on head, pronotum and abdomen. Mesonotum and metanotum with sparse granules/ occasional tubercles. Hind part of female abdominal segment 6 slightly swollen. Forewings and pre-anal part of hindwings dark brown, net-like with pale veins, hindwings dusky. Female short-winged with tiny hindwings, male long-winged, hindwings reaching beyond end of abdominal segment 5. In both sexes eyes are green and bases of antennal segments indistinctly pale banded.

Female (Supporting Information, Fig. S8A): Head: slightly longer than wide. Antennae longer than forelegs, with numerous indistinct paler bands at base of segments; basal segment and much shorter segment 2 broader than remaining segments. Thorax: pronotum slightly shorter than head, with central impression. Mesonotum almost 5 × length of pronotum. Mesonotum 1.6 × combined length of metanotum and short median segment. Mesonotum and metanotum with sparse granules and few well-spaced tubercles on mesonotum. Forewings short, hindwings tiny. Abdomen: elongate. Eighth segment much longer than ninth and tenth (anal), which are of similar size. Operculum rounded at tip, reaching about half length of anal segment, which has almost truncate tip. Cerci short. Legs: all of modest length, hindlegs not reaching end of abdomen.

Male (Supporting Information, Fig. S8B): Apart from being much slenderer, similar in general appearance, except wings. The forewings are truncate, hindwings reaching beyond end of abdominal segment 5. Anal segment rounded at tip; cerci short. Poculum reaching about end of ninth abdominal segment.