Hierodula patellifera ( Audinet-Serville, 1838 )

Connors, Matthew G., 2023, Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist, Zootaxa 5239 (4), pp. 477-499 : 483

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7644017
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hierodula patellifera ( Audinet-Serville, 1838 )
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This species is known only from Christmas Island in Australia but is widespread and common throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The Christmas Island population was originally described as H. dispar Kirby, 1900 and subsequently synonymised with H. patellifera by Beier (1935), however there are considerable differences between the populations and a re-investigation of the synonymy is warranted (C.-T. Hsu pers. comm.).