Oliver ZOMPRO

Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Arbeitsgruppe Tropenökologie, August-Thienemannstraße 2, D-24306 Plön, Deutschland.

E-mail : zompro@mpil-ploen.mpg.de

A revision of Oreophoetes Rehn, 1904, and description of a new genus ( Insecta : Phasmatodea : Anareolatae : Diapheromeridae : Diapheromerinae : Oreophoetini ).

 The genus Oreophoetes Rehn, 1904, is revised. Diagnoses are given for all species included and synonyms are listed. Bacteria nigripes Scudder,1875, is reduced to a subspecies of O. peruana (Saussure, 1868). A lectotype is designated for Bacteria peruana Saussure, 1868. The egg of Oreophoetes mima (Giglio-Tos, 1898) is described for the first time. A new genus and species of this tribe from Northern Peru, Oreophoetophasma hennemanni gen. n., sp. n., is described.

Key-words :Phasmatodea - Oreophoetes Rehn, 1904 - Oreophoetophasma hennemanni gen. n., sp. n. - synonymy - eggs