Compsothespis Saussure, 1873

Connors, Matthew G., 2023, Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist, Zootaxa 5239 (4), pp. 477-499 : 480

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scientific name	Compsothespis Saussure, 1873
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Compsothespis australiensis Wood-Mason, 1889

Described from a single specimen collected in “northern Australia ” by Westwood ( Wood-Mason 1889; Tindale 1923), this species has not been recorded since.All other members of the subfamily are restricted to Africa ( Balderson 1984; Schwarz & Roy 2019), and as Westwood collected widely it is almost certain that the specimen is mislabelled. I conclude that the specimen was almost certainly also collected in Africa and hence that the species is not found in Australia. It is here removed from the Australian list.

References

Balderson, J. (1984) Catalogue of Australian Mantodea. Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 23, 1 - 17. https: // doi. org / 10.25919 / 4 rnm-k 707

Saussure, H. D. (1873) Melanges Orthopterologiques. IVme Fascicule. Mantides et Blattides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 23 (2), 1 - 164.

Schwarz, C. J. & Roy, R. (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, New Series, 55 (2), 101 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2018.1556567

Tindale, N. B. (1923) Review of Australian Mantidae. Records of the South Australian Museum, 2, 425 - 457.

Wood-Mason, J. (1889) A Catalogue of the Mantodea, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, and an Enumeration of the Specimens, in the Collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 66 pp.