Amorphoscelis pantherina Roy, 1966

Svenson, Gavin J., 2014, The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, ZooKeys 433, pp. 31-75 : 37-38

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Amorphoscelidae

Amorphoscelis pantherina Roy, 1966

Amorphoscelis pantherina : Roy 1966: 268-270; Kaltenbach 1983: 84; Ehrmann 2002: 62 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 25.

Type.

Holotype Male (Fig. 3 A–E; USNM ENT 00873999).

Holotype labels.

Iraq / Arbil Liwa - Aug. 1962 / genitalia - 544 - R. Roy / Amorphoscelis - pantherina, n. sp. - ♂ HOLOTYPE - R.ROY 1966.

Measurements.

Body length 20.21; forewing length 16.60; hindwing length 15.25; pronotum length 1.95; prozone length 0.79; pronotum width 2.26; pronotum narrow width 1.93; head width 4.30; head vertex to clypeus 1.71; frons width 1.81; frons height 0.26; prothoracic femur length 3.07; mesothoracic femur length 4.46; mesothoracic tibia length 3.18; mesothoracic tarsus length 3.91; metathoracic femur length 4.62; metathoracic tibia length 4.83; metathoracic tarsus length 4.58; discoidal femoral spines R1/L1; anteroventral femoral spine count R0/L0; posteroventral femoral spine count R0/L0; anteroventral tibial spine count R0/L0; posteroventral tibial spine count R0/L0.