Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998

Zhang, Jia-Zhi & Price, Benjamin, 2024, Revision of the genus Deroplatys Westwood, 1839 (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 5445 (1), pp. 1-68 : 20

Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998

( Figs. 8A; 8B; 8F; 8I; 8K;8N ; 9A )

Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998: 95-99 (2♂; ♀); Ehrmann 2002: 119 (♂, ♀).

Type material:

Holotype. 1 ♂, Vietnam, prov. Gia Lai, 20 km N of Kannack, Buon Luoi , 22-31.111. 1995 A. Gorochov.

Paratypes: 1♂ same locality , 3-11X1.1993; 1♀, same data , “collected as last instar nymph, moulted to imago in laboratory in beginning of January 1994 ” A. Gorochov .

Diagnostic features and description: see Anisyutkin (1998).

Distribution. Vietnam

Remarks. The external morphologies resemble the Deroplatys truncata , but minor differences can be found in the male hindwing’s apex and the genitalia. Compared with Deroplatys truncata , the titilator (paa) has a very different shape. D. truncata has a narrower and curvier paa compared to D. gorochovi . The male hindwing’s apex is more acute in Deroplatys truncata . Although it is not mentioned in the original description, however, it seems the ratio of pronotum prozona and metazona of the female can be used to distinguish between the females of the two species.

The length of the metazona of female Deroplatys truncata is three times longer than its prozona, whereas the D. gorochovi are equal to three times longer or less. Therefore, without examining more specimens, this characteristic can be used as an identification key to separating two species.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Deroplatys gorochovi (A, B, F, I, K & N), Deroplatys truncata (C, D, G, L & O) and *Deroplatys shelfordi (e, H & M) external morphology. A: *Deroplatys gorochovi male from Anisyutkin (1998); B: *Deroplatys gorochovi female from Anisyutkin (1998); C: Deroplatys truncata male; D: Deroplatys truncata female; E: *Deroplatys shelfordi female pronotum; F: *Deroplatys gorochovi female pronotum from Anisyutkin (1998); G: Deroplatys truncata female pronotum; H: *Deroplatys shelfordi female head; I: *Deroplatys gorochovi female head from Anisyutkin (1998); J: Deroplatys truncata female head; K: *Deroplatys gorochovi male head from Anisyutkin (1998); L: Deroplatys truncata male head; M: *Deroplatys shelfordi female; N: *Deroplatys gorochovi forefemur from Anisyutkin (1998); O: Deroplatys truncata forefemur. ‘*’ indicates the primary type. Images not to scale.

FIGURE 9. Male genitalia of A: *Deroplatys gorochovi from Anisyutkin, (1998); B–E: Deroplatys truncata; B & D: West Malaysia; C & E: Borneo. ‘*’ indicates the primary type. Scale bars 1mm.