Paratoxodera meggiti Uvarov, 1927

Unnahachote, T., Samung, Y., Waengsothorn, S. & Jaitrong, W., 2019, New records of praying mantis (Mantodea) from Thailand, Far Eastern Entomologist 395, pp. 23-32 : 27-28

Paratoxodera meggiti Uvarov, 1927

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Paratoxodera meggitti Uvarov, 1927: 658 . Type locality: Burma [ Myanmar] (BMHN, holotype male); Ehrmann, 2002: 272; Roy, 2009: 159.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Thailand: Khorat [Nakhon Ratchasima province], Wang Nam

Kheao district , Sakaerat Envirolmental Research Satation, 29.II 1968, 1 male (THNHM-I-

11228, THNHM), S. Sittilert leg. Holotype male images, source BMNH Data Portal.

DIAGNOSIS. Adult male. Head triangular, compound eye conical with anterior spine;

pronotum in profile view, relatively long and straight, metazona much longer than fore coxa,

with a large foliaceous lobe at posterior that is larger than other metazonal lobes; middle coxa and hind coxa with tridentate lobes, femora with two distinct lobes, strongly bilobed, distal lobe being largest, with distinct acute projection apically; wings not reaching abdominal tergite 5th, costal area of forewing and hind wing are opaque brown and translucent brown respectively; abdomen slender; abdominal tergite 5th with large medial lobe; abdominal sternite 3rd, 4th with well-developed medial lobes; cerci short and flat: apical cercomere not bifurcate. Male genitalia. Right phallomere, with pilosity field, pva with well-developed projection covered with pilosity, fda elongated. Ventral phallomere, sdp elongated, curved to right side, posterior margin slightly concave and apex not well sclerotized. Left phallomere,

aafa widely separate from pafa well slerotized, curved projection with small acute apex,

pafa is a well sclerotized spine, loa pilose, paa of hook-like shape.

DISTRIBUTION. Thailand (new record). – China (Wang, 1993), Vietnam (Thinh,

2010), Myanmar (Uvarov, 1927; Roy, 2009), West Malaysia, Sabah (Roy, 2009).

REMARK. Most morphological characters of male examined agree well with the images of the holotype but the median lobe on 5th abdominal tergite relatively broader than that in the holotype and this lobe is similar to those in Sabah population (see Roy, 2009: 161, fig.

55).

Figures

Figs 7–9. Praying mantis, male body, dorsal view. 7 – Paratoxodera meggitti; 8 – Steno-

Figs 10–12. Praying mantis, male body, lateral view. 10 – Paratoxodera meggitti; 11 – Stenotoxodera porioni; 12 – Toxodera fimbriata.

Figs 13–17. Male genitalia, ventral view. 13 – Didymocorypha lanceolata; 14 – Para-