Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Thespidae

Hoplocorypha perplexa Rehn, 1912

Hoplocorypha perplexa: Rehn 1912: 460-461; Giglio-Tos 1927: 232; Beier 1935: 26; Kaltenbach 1996: 318; Ehrmann 2002: 187 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 363.

Type.

Holotype Female (Fig. 6 D–F; USNM ENT 00873981). The female specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1912) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing female specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Luebo Congo - D. W. Snyder / Hoplocorypha - perplexa - TYPE Rehn / Type - No. - U.S.N.M. [USNM Type No. 14604; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 60.73; pronotum length 24.49; prozone length 7.47; pronotum width 3.68; pronotum narrow width 2.87; head width 5.58; head vertex to clypeus 2.62; frons width 2.10; frons height 0.75; prothoracic femur length 16.70; mesothoracic femur length 16.47; mesothoracic tibia length 15.52; mesothoracic tarsus length 7.21; metathoracic femur length 18.88; metathoracic tibia length 19.45; metathoracic tarsus length 7.10; discoidal femoral spines R3/L3; anteroventral femoral spine count R11/L12; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R10/L8; posteroventral tibial spine count R4/L4.