Apteromantis aptera (Fuente, 1894)

Marabuto, Eduardo, Rodrigues, Ivo & Henriques, Sergio S, 2014, Sphodromantisviridis (Forskal, 1775): New for Portugal and new records of the rare and small mantids Apteromantisaptera (Fuente, 1894) and Perlamantisallibertii Guerin-Meneville, 1843 in the country (Mantodea: Mantidae and Amorphoscelidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1037-1037 : 1037

Apteromantis aptera (Fuente, 1894)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: Grosso-Silva & Soares-Vieira (2004); Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; locality: UTM: 29SPB32 ; verbatimLocality: Malhão, Castro Marim; Event: eventDate: 7-03-2004

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: Boieiro et al. (2007); Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Baixo Alentejo; county: Beja; municipality: Castro Verde; locality: UTM: 29SNB97 ; verbatimLocality:, Herdade Belver, S. Marcos da Ataboeira; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTZPE0046; Event: eventDate: 2006-05-25/06-13

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Ivo Rodrigues; individualCount: 2; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Baixo Alentejo; county: Moura; municipality: Sobral da Adiça; locality: UTM: 29SPC50 ; verbatimLocality: Serra de Ficalho; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTCON0053; verbatimLatitude: 37° 58.04N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 16.63W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 2-04-2008

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sérgio Henriques; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Alto Alentejo; county: Évora; municipality: Évora; locality: UTM: 29SNC86 ; verbatimLocality: Herdade da Mitra; verbatimLatitude: 38° 31.62N; verbatimLongitude: 8° 01.19W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 24-10-2008

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Baixo Alentejo; county: Beja; municipality: Beringel; locality: UTM: 29SNC81 ; verbatimLocality: 2km SW of Beringel; verbatimLatitude: 37° 02.90N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 59.93W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 3-05-2009

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sérgio Henriques; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Castro Marim; locality: UTM: 29SPB32 ; verbatimLocality: Azinhal; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTCON0036; verbatimLatitude: 37° 17.19N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 27.51W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 15-03-2010

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Fernando Romão; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Baixo Alentejo; county: Beja; municipality: São Brissos; locality: UTM: 29SNC91 ; verbatimLocality: São Brissos quarry; verbatimLatitude: 37° 04.85N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 57.02W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 10-04-2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Francisco Barros; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Alto Alentejo; county: Portalegre; municipality: Campo Maior; locality: UTM: 29SPD61 ; verbatimLocality: Nossa Senhora Expectação; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTCON0030; verbatimLatitude: 38° 57.73N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 04.62W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 1-12-2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sérgio Henriques; individualCount:>30; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Baixo Alentejo; county: Beja; municipality: Castro Verde; locality: UTM: 29SNB96 ; verbatimLocality: Viseus; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTZPE0046; verbatimLatitude: 37° 39.67N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 57.40W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 6-04-2012

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Francisco Barros; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Alto Alentejo; county: Évora; municipality: Reguengos Monsaraz; locality: UTM: 29SPC25 ; verbatimLocality: Reguengos Monsaraz; verbatimLatitude: 38° 25.90N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 34.05W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 28-05-2012

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Apteromantis aptera is the only mantis species represented in the European Bern Convention (Annex II and IV) and Habitats Directive. Therefore it is the only species whose populations and habitats must be assessed periodically in the context of the Natura 2000 ecological network. Although this species is patchily distributed over the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula, it may be locally abundant (R. Obregón pers. com.). On overall, however, it is considered as "Seriously threatened" ( Battiston et al. 2010) and is officially protected in Spain. Globally (although by the time it was assessed there were no Portuguese records), the IUCN still considers this species as "Near Threatened" ( IUCN 1996), despite the expressed idea of a much needed revision.

Distribution

An Atlanto-Mediterranean species, this Iberian endemic mantis is generally limited to the southern parts of the Peninsula, where most records originate from Andalucia ( Pascual Torres 2005, Obregón and López 2009) but is found up to the latitude of Madrid and Cuenca. The most up-to-date distribution map of the species in Spain is provided by Obregón and Gutiérrez (2013) who also provided new records for Huelva and Badajoz provinces, contiguous to the Portuguese territory and complement Pascual Torres (2012). Before, Pascual Torres (2011) projected the suitable distribution area for the species in Spain, with a high probability of occurrence near the border with Portugal to the south of the central mountain system. In Portugal, this species was found only twice, in March of 2004 ( Grosso-Silva and Soares-Vieira 2004) and later by Boieiro et al. (2007) in the southeasternmost third of the country. In Morocco, Apteromantis aptera is replaced by vicariant sister species Apteromantis bolivari (Werner, 1931), where it is local and poorly known ( Battiston et al. 2012).