Amorphoscelis pulchra Bolívar, 1908

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), Zootaxa 5373 (1), pp. 1-64 : 17

Amorphoscelis pulchra Bolívar, 1908

Figs. 30–35

Amorphoscelis pulchra Bolívar, 1908: 515–516 , Fig. 4 .

Type locality. Cameroon .

Distribution. Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, CAR, DRC ( Bolívar 1908b; Gillon & Roy 1968; Miles 2021; Moulin et al. 2017; Roy 1963, 1964a, 1965a, 1968a, 1973b, 1975, 2018).

Records. CSC: ♀, old camp, 04.–06.XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.

Remarks. Contrary to the previous species, this taxon prefers forests and heavily wooded savanna.

Figures

FIGURES 30–35. Amorphoscelis pulchra Bolívar, 1908. 30–31, 34. Female. 32–33, 35. Male from Ghana. 30, 32. Dorsal view. 31, 33, 35. Ventral view. 34. Anterior view of head. 35. Genitalia.

FIGURES 2–4. Habitat types of the CNP. 2. Open savanna. 3. Bushy savanna. 4. Wooded savanna.