Chlidonoptera chopardi Roy, 1964

Moulin, Nicolas, 2020, A cryptic new species of Chlidonoptera Karsch, 1892 from the south west protected zone of the Central African Republic (Insecta, Mantodea, Hymenopodidae), ZooKeys 917, pp. 63-83 : 63

Chlidonoptera chopardi Roy, 1964 Figure 4

Chlidonoptera chopardi : Roy 1964: 764; Roy 1965: 595; Ragge and Roy 1967: 586; Gillon and Roy 1968: 1039; Roy and Leston 1975: 297; Ehrmann 2002: 95; Otte and Spearman 2005: 86.

Type material examined.

(4♂♂). Chlidonoptera chopardi : Male holotype, Banco Forest Reserve, Ivory Coast, 1945, code "Ab 31 nuit," Coll. R. Paulian & C. Delamare, genitalia preparation Roy 222, Insects - Small orders & Odonates MNHN Database (EP) #2329, MNHN; 1 ♂ paratype, Banco Forest Reserve, Ivory Coast, 1945, code "Ab 31 nuit," Coll. R. Paulian & C. Delamare, Insects - Small orders & Odonates MNHN Database (EP) #2330, MNHN; 2 ♂ ♂ paratypes, Daloa, Ivory Coast, XII.1930/IV.1931, Coll. Ch. Alluaud & P. A. Chappuis, Insects - Small orders & Odonates MNHN Database (EP) #2331 & #2333, MNHN; 1 ♂ paratype, near Dimbokro, Ivory Coast, 1910, Coll. Capitaine Posth, Insects - Small orders & Odonates MNHN Database (EP) #2332, MNHN.

Other material examined.

(7♂♂) Ivory Coast. San Pedro (7♂), 05.XI.1982, Coll. Ph. Le Gall, Genitalia NM0160, 0161, 0162, RCNM.

Figures

Figure 4. Chlidonoptera, dorsal habitus: A C. vexillum, male, Mbalmayo, Cameroon, BOLD NMMAN 11 - 0541 B C. vexillum, male, Arboretum Raponda Walker, Gabon, BOLD MANGAB 15 - 094 C C. vexillum, male, Biosphere Reserve of Dimonika, Republic of the Congo, BOLD NMMAN 11 - 0487 D C. vexillum, male, Minziro Forest, Tanzania, BOLD NMMAN 11 - 0533 E C. vexillum, male, Kalinzu Forest, Uganda F C. roxanae sp. nov., holotype male, base camp, lake 1, Dzanga-Ndoki NP, CAR, BOLD NMMAN 11 - 0404 G C. lestoni, paratype male, Tafo, Ghana (S. Poulain) H C. chopardi, male, San Pedro, Ivory Coast.