Cladomorphinae Bradley & Galil, 1977

Cladomorphinae Bradley & Galil, 1977 View in CoL

Günther (1953: 557) established the subfamily Phibalosominae and included four tribes, namely Cladomorphini , Hesperophasmatini , Cranidiini and Cladoxerini . Bradley & Galil (1977: 186) changed the subfamilar name to Cladomorphinae , consequently re-named Günther’ s Phibalosomini and Haplopodini into Cladomorphini and Hesperophasmatini , and generally took over this authors arrangement of the tribes. Both treated Cladomorphinae (= Phibalosominae ) as a subfamily of Phasmatidae . The tribe Cladomorphini includes most of the subfamily’ s continental members and differs from the three other tribes of Cladomorphinae by the medioventral carina of the profemora strongly approaching the anteroventral carina instead of being midways on the ventral surface. Furthermore, it is characteristic for the specializations of the male poculum.

Presently the following genera are included in Cladomorphini : Cladomorphus Gray, 1835 (= Phibalosoma Gray, 1835 ), Jeremiodes , gen. nov., Hirtuleius Stål, 1875 , Jeremia Redtenbacher, 1908 , Otocrania Redtenbacher, 1908 , Otocraniella Zompro, 2004 and Xylodus Saussure, 1859 . The here newly described genus is apparently closely related to Jeremia Redtenbacher (see differentiation and table 1 below).