Majangella Giglio-Tos, 1915

Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, Zootaxa 3797 (1), pp. 130-168 : 142

Majangella Giglio-Tos, 1915

= Ephippiomantis Werner, 1922

Three species on the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sunda Islands. See taxonomic comments under M. moultoni .

Majangella moultoni Giglio-Tos, 1915

Majangella moultoni Giglio-Tos, 1915: 94 -95

Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo ( Werner 1933, Ehrmann 2002, Svenson & Whiting 2009, Bragg 2010).

Bornean records. Sarawak: Sadong ( Giglio-Tos 1915b), Lanjak Entimau (3 m, CSUB/SFDC); Sabah: Crocker Range ( Bragg 2010), Mt. Kinabalu ( Bragg 2010), Danum Valley ( Bragg 2010); Kalimantan: Long Petak ( Werner 1933).

Remarks. Because of its superficial resemblance to bark-dwelling mantids (i. e. mottled color pattern and a groove between the first and second postero-ventral spine) this genus was included by virtually all authors within the Liturgusidae (Giglio-Tos 1915, Beier 1935c, 1964, 1968, Ehrmann 2002, Otte & Spearman 2005, Bragg 2010). However, Liturgusidae , in its classic sense, turned out to be a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated taxa sharing only the bark-living lifestyle (see Svenson & Whiting 2009).

On the other hand, Werner (1922) assigned his new genus Ephippiomantis (with E. ophirensis as type species) to Acromantinae due to the shape of the frontal sclerite, the process on the vertex and the subapical lobes on mid and hind legs. The synonymy has recently been established by Svenson & Vollmer (2014). Molecular phylogeny (Svenson & Whiting 2009, as E. ophirensis ) lately confirmed Majangella to belong to Acromantini .