Panurgica fratercula Rehn, 1912

Svenson, Gavin J., 2014, The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, ZooKeys 433, pp. 31-75 : 57-58

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Hymenopodidae

Panurgica fratercula Rehn, 1912

Panurgica fratercula : Rehn 1912: 468-469; Giglio-Tos 1927: 553; Beier 1934: 22; Roy 1964: 735; Roy 1965: 577; Ragge and Roy 1967: 586; Gillon and Roy 1968: 1039; Roy and Leston 1975: 297; Ehrmann 2002: 260 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 95.

Type.

Holotype Male (Fig. 13 A–C; USNM ENT 00873987). The male specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1912) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing male specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Mt. Coffee - Liberia / Liberia - GPGoll / Panurgica - fratercula - TYPE Rehn. / Type - No. - U.S.N.M. [USNM Type No. 14608 reported by Rehn 1912]

Measurements.

Body length 28.80; forewing length 22.51; pronotum length 5.16; prozone length 2.38; pronotum width 3.54; pronotum narrow width 1.86; head width 4.69; head vertex to clypeus 2..06; frons width 1.56; frons height 0.67; prothoracic femur length 7.19; mesothoracic femur length 5.78; mesothoracic tibia length 4.48; mesothoracic tarsus length 3.91; metathoracic femur length 6.55; metathoracic tibia length 6.48; metathoracic tarsus length 5.13; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R12/L12; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R13/L13; posteroventral tibial spine count R13/L13.