Rhombodera megaera Rehn, 1903

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 : 61

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Rhombodera megaera Rehn, 1903

Rhombodera megaera : Rehn 1903: 710-712; Giglio-Tos 1912: 98; Giglio-Tos 1927: 449; Beier 1935: 85; Ehrmann 2002: 308 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 269.

Type.

Holotype Female (Fig. 14 D–F; USNM ENT 00873050). The female specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1903) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing female specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

79 / 216 / 79 / 216 / Trong Lower Siam - Dr. WL Abbott / U.S.N.M. 6956 - Rhombodera - megaera - TYPE. Rehn / Type - No. 7071 - U.S.N.M. [Cat. No. 6956, U.S.N.M.; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 94.49; forewing length 53.17; hindwing length 46.19; pronotum length 30.67; prozone length 10.65; pronotum width 10.92; pronotum narrow width 6.84; head width 11.78; head vertex to clypeus 6.35; frons width 4.31; frons height 3.35; prothoracic femur length 23.61; mesothoracic femur length 19.58; mesothoracic tibia length 16.20; mesothoracic tarsus length 9.35; metathoracic femur length 22.03; metathoracic tibia length 22.98; metathoracic tarsus length 12.67; anteroventral femoral spine count R13/L15; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R14/L14; posteroventral tibial spine count R12/L11.