Exocnophila Zompro, 2001

Ghirotto, Victor Morais, Conle, Oskar, Hennemann, Frank, Valero, Pablo & Cancello, Eliana M., 2024, On the Brazilian Exocnophila stick insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5536 (1), pp. 59-98 : 61

Genus Exocnophila Zompro, 2001

Distribution ( Fig. 31 ). The genus is endemic to Brazil and is recorded only from the Atlantic Forest in Southeast and Northeast region of the country, in the states of Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.

Composition

Exocnophila brevitarsata ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) comb. nov.

Exocnophila hastata ( Burmeister, 1838) comb. nov.

Exocnophila tuberculata ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)

Exocnophila cornuta ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)

Exocnophila ovifuscum sp. nov.

Type species: Exocnophila exintegra (junior synonym of Exocnophila brevitarsata ) by original designation.

Figures

FIGURE 31. Map of the known distribution for Exocnophila species, in southeast Brazil. Precise localities are known only for Rio de Janeiro state; the inlet map shows Brazilian states with records for the genus highlighted in red, map colours indicating biomes (dark green: Amazon, green: Atlantic Forest; orange: Cerrado; beige: Caatinga).