Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), Zootaxa 4824 (1), pp. 1-66 : 40

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4402135

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scientific name

Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838
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Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838 View in CoL

( Figs. 84–85, 87 View FIGURES 84–87 , 147 View FIGURES 142–147 )

Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838: 531 View in CoL .

Type locality. Brazil ( Burmeister 1838) .

Records. CeNak: ♂, 16.IX.1973, leg. H. W. Koepcke. SMNK: ♀, 230 m, 21.IX.–08.X.2012, leg. K. Schönitzer (SMNK-Mant 12828, ex. ZSM). ZSM: ♂, 230 m, lux, V.2015, leg. E. Diller ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 84–87 ); ♀, 220 m, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, lux, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe, M. Breitsameter, O. Conle & F. Hennemann ( Fig. 85 View FIGURES 84–87 ) .

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador, Peru.

Remarks. This species is not identical with the SE Brazilian A. concinna , as suspected by Kirby (1904) and Heitzmann-Fontenelle (1965). Our specimens agree with the ones from the MRSN identified by E. Giglio-Tos as A. aurantiaca . This species is very common in Peru and Ecuador, but has often been recorded as A. concinna in the past (see also Rivera & Vergara-Cobián 2017).

The nymphs of this species exhibit morphological and behavioral ant mimicry ( Fig. 147 View FIGURES 142–147 ). Early instars use several sympatric species of the genus Pseudomyrmex as a model (see also Salazar 2003a), while later instars resemble Ectatomma tuberculatum (pers. obs.).

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Acanthopidae

Genus

Acontista

Loc

Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael 2020
2020
Loc

Acontista aurantiaca

Burmeister, H. 1838: 531
1838
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