Acontista, Saussure, 1869

Pfäuti, Patrice & Hollier, John, 2012, Additions to the catalogue of mantid type material deposited in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (Insecta: Mantodea), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 261-267 : 263

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5962/bhl.part.151211
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5825230
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E00F87F4-FFD5-2979-72D5-E40B39A0FBB4
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Acontista
status

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elegans Saussure, 1869 [Acontista] .

One ♂ syntype (box 3), missing the abdomen but corresponding to the measurement in the description (30 mm from the head to the end of the wings). It carries two handwritten labels: "♂ Guyanne M. H. de Saussure" and " Acontista perspicua, Fab. (elegans, Sauss.)" (green paper). This species name is now considered a junior synonym of Raptrix perspicua (Fabricius, 1787).