Parastratocles xanthomela ( Olivier, 1792 )

Chiquetto-Machado, Pedro I., Morales, Adriana C. & Cancello, Eliana M., 2022, Taxonomic revision of Paraphasma Redtenbacher, 1906 (Phasmatodea, Pseudophasmatidae) based on phallic and external morphology, Zootaxa 5122 (1), pp. 1-80 : 71

Parastratocles xanthomela ( Olivier, 1792)

Mantis xanthomela Olivier, 1792: 628 [name for the species “Le Spectre Noir de Surinam ” of Stoll (1787: 31–32, figs 36– 37)]; Peletier de Saint Fargeau & Serville, 1825: 101 [= Phasma laterale ( Fabricius, 1775) ]; Gray, 1835: 22 [= Phasma laterale ( Fabricius, 1775) , incorrectly attributed to Lichtenstein]; Westwood, 1859: 122 [= Phasma laterale ( Fabricius, 1775) ]; Redtenbacher, 1906: 104 [= Stratocles lateralis ( Fabricius, 1775) , incorrectly attributed to Stoll]; Bragg, 1995: 25. Unspecified type (s): Suriname [probably lost].

Pseudophasma xanthomela, Kirby, 1904a: 413 .

Stratocles xanthomela, Otte & Brock, 2005: 328 .

Parastratocles xanthomela, Conle et al., 2020: 25–26 , 130.

Phasma perspicillaris Stoll, 1813: 67–68 , 77, fig. 86 [“Le Spectre Maniere de Papillon”, named Phasma perspicillaris in the appendix (p. 77)]; Redtenbacher, 1906: 104 [= Stratocles lateralis ( Fabricius, 1775) , incorrectly attributed to Stoll]; Otte & Brock, 2005: 282 [= Prexaspes (Prexaspes) lateralis ( Fabricius, 1775) ]. Syn. nov. Unspecified type (s): ♀, Suriname [probably lost].

Phasma perspicillare, Gray, 1835: 24 ; De Haan, 1842: 123; Westwood, 1859: 117.

Stratocles perspicillaris, Kirby, 1904a: 409 .

Remarks. Here we remove Phasma perspicillaris Stoll, 1813 from the synonymy of Paraphasma laterale and place it as a new synonym under Parastratocles xanthomela (see “Remarks” under Paraphasma laterale ).