Stagmatoptera pumila Werner, 1925

Rodrigues, Henrique Miranda & Cancello, Eliana Marques, 2016, Taxonomic revision of Stagmatoptera Burmeister, 1838 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Stagmatopterinae), Zootaxa 4183 (1), pp. 1-78 : 48-50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4183.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E576DCD-49EB-47DD-9CF2-14F3941BA0B5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6057596

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Stagmatoptera pumila Werner, 1925
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Stagmatoptera pumila Werner, 1925 View in CoL

Male—Figures 32C, 34C, 36C, 38C, 40C, 53.

Stagmatoptera pumila Werner, 1925b View in CoL , p.383 (descr.); Terra, 1995, p.65 (cit.); Ehrmann, 2002, p.329 (cit.); Agudelo et al., 2007, p.125 (cit.); Ehrmann & Koçak, 2009, p.12 (cit.).

Holotype: 1♂, no locality ( Fig. 53 View FIGURE 53 ) (NHRS) (examined)

Type locality. Unknown.

Diagnosis. Forewings shorter than the hindwings during rest, both shorter than the abdomen, small body size.

Redescription. Male —Prothorax slender, lateral margins slightly crenulated on the prozona, smooth on the metazona. Metazona with a weakly marked central keel ( Fig. 34 View FIGURE 34 C). Forecoxae with 9 large spines, which alternate with 4–10 smaller spines ( Fig. 36 View FIGURE 36 C). Forefemora slender, the first three discoidal spines black on their anterior surface; 15 anteroventral spines, the first two spines and the big spines black on their anterior surface, the 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th spines present a small spot of the same coloration on their insertion. Anterior femoral spot extending from the femoral groove to the 4th anteroventral spine, rectangular, starting dark on the femoral groove and fading towards the apex of the femora ( Fig. 38 View FIGURE 38 C). Foretibiae with 10 posteroventral spines and 14 anteroventral spines; tibial spur and the spine before it dark on their anterior surface ( Fig. 40 View FIGURE 40 C). Foretarsi absent in the type specicit. Discoidal area of the forewings with an opaque-green stripe anteriorly, gradually becoming hyaline. Spot on the stigma circular, medium sized, reaching the middle of the discoidal area, with an anterior white spot and a posterior brown spot. Discoidal area of the hindwings hyaline with yellow stripes on the crossveins, anal area hyaline with yellow stripes on the crossveins of the anterior half ( Fig. 53 View FIGURE 53 ).

Measurements. Body length: 53.8; head width: 6.4; prozona length: 3.9; metazona length: 15.7; prothorax width: 3.9; forecoxae length: 10.7; forefemora length: 12.6; forefemora width: 2.4; foretibiae length: 6.3. Ratios. Head/prothoracic-width: 1.64; metazona/prozona: 4.03; metazona length/prothoracic width: 4.03; metazona/forecoxae: 1.47; forefemora length/width: 5.25.

Remarks. Stagmatoptera pumila , described by Werner (1925), is known only from its unlabeled holotype.

This species differ from all other Stagmatoptera in having both pairs of wings shorter than the abdomen and one of its raptorial legs is malformed. These characteristics make us question whether this specimen is really a separated species or merely an adult of another species with aberrant morphology. A careful study of its genitalia might solve the question, however, since we were not allowed to dissect the specimen, it is not possible to confirm its actual identity. Therefore, we prefer to maintain S. pumila as a valid species until additional studies can be conducted.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae

Genus

Stagmatoptera

Loc

Stagmatoptera pumila Werner, 1925

Rodrigues, Henrique Miranda & Cancello, Eliana Marques 2016
2016
Loc

Stagmatoptera pumila

Werner 1925
1925
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