Vates annectens Rehn, 1900

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 : 67-69

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Vates annectens Rehn, 1900

Vates annectens : Rehn 1900: 85-86; Kirby 1904: 306; Rehn 1911: 18.

Pseudovates annectens : Giglio-Tos 1914: 48; Giglio-Tos 1927: 609; Hebard 1932: 213 [Junior synonym of Theoclytes tolteca Saussure, 1859]; Otte 1978: 77; Ehrmann 2002: 299 [SYN]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 314 [SYN]; Agudelo et al. 2007: 154 [SYN].

Type.

Lectotype Male (Fig. 18F; USNM ENT 00873969). One male and one female were described by Rehn (1900), neither being designated as the sole name-bearing type specimen. Therefore, they are syntypes under Article 72.1.1 of the Code. Herewithin, the male specimen is designated as the lectotype under Article 74.1.1 of the Code. No prior fixation of a sole name-bearing type specimen was found in the literature. The two specimens were listed as deposited in the "...private collection of the writer", the male now at the USNM and the female likely in the ANSP according to Otte (1978).

Lectotype labels.

Tacubaya - 11.11.98 D.F. - O.W. Barrett. / Rehn Coll. - Acad. Nat. Sci. / Vates - annectens - Cotype. Rehn / Type - No. - U.S.N.M.

Measurements.

Body length 70.91; forewing length 48.13; pronotum length 18.87; prozone length 3.42; pronotum width 4.04; pronotum narrow width 2.03; head width 5.41; frons width 2.09; frons height 1.01; prothoracic femur length 11.09; mesothoracic femur length 10.16; mesothoracic tibia length 8.83; mesothoracic tarsus length 6.55; metathoracic femur length 12.17; metathoracic tibia length 11.91; metathoracic tarsus length 8.27; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R14/L13; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R14/L13; posteroventral tibial spine count R10/L10.