Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877

Wu, Chao & Liu, Chun-Xiang, 2020, New record of Didymocorypha Wood-Mason (Mantodea, Eremiaphilidae) from China, with description of a new high-altitude wingless mantis species in Asia, ZooKeys 922, pp. 51-64 : 51

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.922.47987

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scientific name

Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877
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Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 Figs 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2 , 3 View Figure 3 , 4 View Figure 4 , 5 View Figure 5 , 6 View Figure 6 , 7 View Figure 7

Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha) : Wood-Mason, 1877: 221.

Pyrgocotis : Stål, 1877: 14; Westwood 1889: 3; Brunner de Wattenwyl 1893: 59; Kirby 1904: 218 (syn.); Giglio-Tos 1921: 31 (syn.).

Didymocorypha : Wood-Mason, 1882: 24; Westwood 1889: 3; Brunner de Wattenwyl 1893: 59; Bolivar 1897: 303; Kirby 1904: 218; Giglio-Tos 1919: 57; Giglio-Tos 1921: 31; Giglio-Tos 1927: 116; Beier 1935: 5; Beier 1964: 942; Beier 1968: 8; Ehrmann 2002: 122; Otte and Spearman 2005: 328; Ehrmann and Borer 2015: 231; Schwarz and Roy 2019: 115, 143.

Type species.

Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha) ensifera Wood-Mason, 1877 by original monotypy = Mantis lanceolata Fabricius, 1798.

Diagnosis.

Small-sized, slender (Figs 1 View Figure 1 - 3 View Figure 3 ). Head elongate (Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ), with lateral lobes of vertex prolonged into triangular processes, running alongside each other but not fused. Compound eyes large, oblong. Lower frons approximately trapezoid. Pronotum slender, with nearly parallel lateral margins. Fore legs weak. Fore femur (Fig. 5A, B View Figure 5 ) with 4 ventro-posterior and 4 discoidal spines; claw groove in the middle; fore tarsus much longer than tibia, and basal tarsomere longer than total length of remaining segments. Middle and hind legs slim without expansions but with genicular spines. Hind legs longer and stronger than mesolegs, similar to jumping legs of locusts. Male winged (Fig. 1A View Figure 1 ) or wingless (Figs 1C View Figure 1 , 3A View Figure 3 ); if winged, fore wings hyaline, a little shorter than body. Female wingless (Figs 1B View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2 , 3C View Figure 3 ).

Abdomen long, narrow. Cerci well-developed, with each segment wide, flat, lanceolate (Fig. 5C-E View Figure 5 ).

Distribution

(Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ). India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China (new record).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Eremiaphilidae

Loc

Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877

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