Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), Zootaxa 4824 (1), pp. 1-66 : 49

Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914

( Figs. 108–109 , 128 , 151 )

Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914: 14–15 .

= Oxyopsis peruviana Chopard, 1916: 182–184 (new synonym).

Type locality. ( O. festae ) Gualaquiza, Ecuador ( Giglio-Tos 1914); ( O. peruviana ) Pozuzo, Peru ( Chopard 1916).

Records. CeNak: ♂, VII.1972, leg. Kaiser. MUSM : 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 06.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; ♀, 230 m, lux, 04.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK). NMB : ♂, 02.–18.X.2009, leg. E.-G. Burmeister (QRNMB-Mant 1193, ex. ZSM). SMNK : ♂, 220 m, lux, 21.IX.–03.X.2004, leg. J. & R. Oehlke (SMNK-Mant 07919, Fig. 108 ); ♂, 03.–10.IX.2006, leg. W. Braun (SMNK-Mant 06518); 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 04.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12577–12578); 4 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 25.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12837–12840); ♀, 230 m, lux, 04.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12841). ZSM : ♂, 260 m, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe, M. Breitsameter, O. Conle & F. Hennemann; ♀, 260 m, 22.IX.–03.X.2004, leg. O. Conle & F. Hennemann ( Fig. 109 ); ♂, 02.–18.X.2009, leg. X.2010, leg. E. Diller; ♀, 230 m, malaise trap, V.2013, leg. E. Diller. CSC : ♂, 230 m, lux, 08.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 340, Fig. 128 ) (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 7.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 409) (ex. SMNK) .

Distribution. Ecuador, Peru.

Remarks. This is a very variable species, with O. festae representing the lower and O. peruviana the upper limits of female variation. Comparison of Panguana and topotypical O. peruviana material with both original descriptions and with photographs of the types of O. festae (MRSN) and O. peruviana (MNCN) , and of the male genitalia of Peruvian and Ecuadorian ( Lombardo & Agabiti 2001) specimens did not reveal any distinguishing features other than size or intraspecific variation, hence the synonymy. The apex of the female tegmen is prone to variation but always more or less rounded, and not as distinctly acute as in O. acutipennis ( Stål, 1877) , a species which is also overall shorter and stouter. The hind femora are supposed to be slightly longer than the metazona in O. peruviana but as long as the metazona in O. festae . However, this difference is just minimal in O. peruviana and the original measurings by E. Giglio-Tos when he descibed O. festae were not particularly accurate, so it is not evident how stringently he understood “as long as”. In most specimens investigated by us the hind femora are slightly (≤ 1 mm) longer than the metazona.

Figures

FIGURES 108–109. Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914. 108. Male in dorsal view. 109. Female in dorsal view. Scale bar: 10 mm.

FIGURES 126–129. Male genitalia of selected Vatinae in ventral view. 126. Parastagmatoptera sottilei Lombardo & Ippolito, 2015. 127. Parastagmatoptera vitreola (Stål, 1877). 128. Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914. 129. Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). Not to scale.

FIGURES 148–153. Life aspects of praying mantids at Panguana (continued). 148. Choeradodis stalii, male. Photo © Michael Falkenberg. 149. Stagmatoptera supplicaria (Burmeister, 1838), male. 150. Parastagmatoptera sottilei, female in copula with partially cannibalized male. Photos © Rolf Mörtter. 151. Oxyopsis festae, female. Photo © Dieter Schulten. 152. Pseudoxyops perpulchra, male. Photo © Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister. 153. Vates weyrauchi, male. Photo © Dieter Schulten.