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

Forni, Giobbe, Cussigh, Alex, Brock, Paul D., Jones, Braxton R., Nicolini, Filippo, Martelossi, Jacopo, Luchetti, Andrea & Mantovani, Barbara, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Australian stick insect genus Candovia (Phasmida: Necrosciinae): insight from molecular systematics and species-delimitation approaches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197, pp. 189-210 : 202

CANDOVIA KOENSI BROCK & JONES SP. NOV.

(SUPPORTING INFORMATION, FIG. S9A, B)

[Koens’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: 5BCC0EB0-6241-4B45-A400-6133BBDE78F3.

Type material: Holotype: ♀, QUEENSLAND, Narrows Road, nr Baroon Pocket Dam, Montville , 26.6983˚S, 152.8656˚E, 15.xi.2011, A. Karas, P.D. Brock & J. Koens, DNA project PB-0060 ( QM) . Paratypes: QUEENSLAND: 4 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂, same data, 04.ix.2009, J. Koens, DNA project, JH-0026 to JH-0031 ( QM) ; 2 ♀♀, same data, xi.2009, A. Karus, DNA project, JH-0043 to JH-0044 ( QM) ; 1 ♀, D’Aguilar Range, Boombana , 27.4045˚S, 152.794˚E, 13.xi.2011, P.D. Brock & N. Tweed, DNA project PB-0058 ( QM) . ( Note , this DNA project data was provisionally labelled Candovia sp. A .)

Overview of both sexes: Stout, brown female, with darker marks and indistinctly mottled legs, but can vary and include light and dark areas and whitish marks. Thorax heavily granulated and abdomen ridged. Small, orange marks may be present on thorax and thorax, also part of mouthparts. Male slenderer, brown with broad, black line laterally on body from back of eyes (orange line above this on mesonotum and metanotum). Darker on head, pronotum and towards hind part of thoracic and abdominal segments. Thorax with less distinct granules. Both sexes with eyes whitish with two horizontal black lines.

Female (Supporting Information, Fig. S9A): Head: longer than wide, sparse granules present. Antennae long, with numerous indistinct segments; basal segment broader than remaining segments. Thorax: heavily granulated dorsally and ventrally. Pronotum slightly shorter than head, with central impression. M e s o n o t u m u p t o 4.3 × l e n g t h o f p r o n o t u m. Mesonotum 1.7. × combined length of metanotum and median segment, the latter shorter than metanotum. Wingless. Abdomen: heavily ridged dorsally and ventrally, with granules, less numerous than on thorax. Eighth segment longer than ninth, which is about the same length as tenth (anal) segment. Operculum reaching end of segment 9; anal segment tip tapered, with tip incised in centre. Cerci broad but short. Legs: long.

Male (Supporting Information, Fig. S9B): Much slenderer, but similar in general appearance. Anal segment subtruncate at tip, cerci short. Poculum not reaching half length of ninth abdominal segment.