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Orthoptera; Phasmatodea; Archipseudophasmatidae n. fam.; Archipseudophasma phoenix n. gen. n. sp.; Raptophasma kerneggeri n. gen. n. sp.; revision; Baltic amber
Abstract:
The stick insects (Orthoptera: Phasmatodea) in Baltic amber are revised. A new family of
Areolatae, Archipseudophasmatidae n. fam., is introduced based on the genus Archipseudophasma n. gen., with the type-species A. phoenix n. sp., differing from the closely related two families, Heteronemiidae and Pseudophasmatidae, in the strongly elongated third segment of the antennae and the fully developed tegmina, projecting beyond the abdomen. It includes two subfamilies, of which only one is named. The second is based on nymphs only, which are useless to describe as new taxa.
Pseudoperla lineata PICTET & BERENDT, 1854, represents a new genus of Archipseudophasmatinae:
Balticophasmatini n. trib., Balticophasma n. gen., and is not a synonym of Pseudoperla gracilipes
PICTET & BERENDT, 1854, as stated by HAGEN in GERMAR & BERENDT in BERENDT (1856: 39).
Electrobaculum Sharov, 1968, is the only genus of Pseudophasmatidae: Pseudophasmatinae:
Electrobaculini n. trib.
Several of the specimens sent to the author for study are actually not phasmids but Orthoptera incertae
sedis represented by Raptophasma n. gen., with the type-species R. kerneggeri n. sp. Even though this
genus from the first glance looks quite similar to Mantodea, it appears to show more features
characteristic of Phasmatodea.
