Otomantis gracilis Lombardo & Ippolito, 2014

Lombardo, Francesco, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Ippolito, Salvatrice & Marletta, Alessandro, 2014, A taxonomic revision of Otomantis Bolivar, 1890 (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae, Acromantinae) with description of five new species, Zootaxa 3797 (1), pp. 169-193 : 190

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.13

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4915445

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scientific name

Otomantis gracilis Lombardo & Ippolito
status

sp. nov.

Otomantis gracilis Lombardo & Ippolito sp. n.

( Figs 9D View FIGURE 9 ; 10D, H View FIGURE 10 ; 11D View FIGURE 11 ; 12G–H, O View FIGURE 12 ; 13 View FIGURE 13 )

Type material: Holotype 1♂ D. R. CONGO: Mayidi, 1942, Rév. P. Van Eyen, ( MDAB) ; Paratypes: 1♂ Congo , Grand Bois, J.-P. Grillot, 24.05.72, Roy genitalia prep. 1859, ( MNHN) D. R. Congo : 1♂ Lovanium , (Kinshasa), XII.1968, P. M. Elsen, Roy genitalia prep. 3134 ( IICT) .

Diagnosis. This species differs from all other species in the capirica group in its smaller size and the significantly reduced vertical process of vertex ( Fig. 9D View FIGURE 9 ). The female is unknown for the species.

Male description.

General Coloration: Body ochre with scattered small dark spots; head ochre with dark spots on the vertex and near the eyes; legs ochre; abdomen dark brown dorsally.

Measurements (mm): TL 17; HW 3.8; PL 3.5; MPW 2.2; ML 1.9; SDW 2.1; CL 4.1; FL 4.7; MFW 2; WL 17.5 x 4.3.

Head ( Fig. 9D View FIGURE 9 ): Transverse, vertex straight, vertical process of vertex reduced to a small spike; juxta-ocular tubercles conical; eyes oval, apical spine with rounded apex; antennae elongated; frontal shield transverse, pentagonal, 2.54 times wider than high, lateral margins straight, apex with a small rounded spike folded forward.

Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 10D, H View FIGURE 10 ) rhomboidal, slender, 1.59 times longer than wide. Prozone elongated, disc with two flattened median tubercles, lateral margins with 4–5 dark small tubercles; metazone with a triangular depression behind supracoxal sulcus; lateral margins of supracoxal dilation form an obtuse angle.

Forelegs: Slender; coxae about 1.17 times longer than pronotum, anterior margin with 8–10 small dark spines; internal apical lobes divergent; anterior femora ( Fig. 11D View FIGURE 11 ) flattened, 2.25 times longer than wide, dorsal margin toothed, curved and its widest part at the 2/3 from the base; spination formula F=4ES/11IS/4DS and T=10ES/9IS; external spines ochre with dark apex.

Meso and metathoracic legs: Femora slender with distal triangular lobes with rounded apex, lobes nearly same size on meso and metafemora, lateral margin broadened.

Wings: Hyaline, exceeding the apex of abdomen. Costal field of mesothoracic wings opaque, discoidal area hyaline with numerous scattered dark spots. Metathoracic wings hyaline.

Abdomen: Cylindrical; supra-anal plate triangular in shape, with rounded apex; subgenital plate longer than wide, not incised at apex and with two small styli. Cerci conical, shorter than in O. scutigera .

External genitalia: Ventral phallomere ( Fig. 12O View FIGURE 12 ) similar to O. capirica , but with a smaller auriculated lamina. Left phallomere with dorsal lamina (dl) elongated ( Fig. 12H View FIGURE 12 ), slightly wider at the base, ventral lamina ( Fig. 12G View FIGURE 12 , vl) more or less square, with a long arm on the anterior margin. Phalloid apophysis (af) well-developed, with two short apical processes.

Distribution. This species occurs in R. Congo ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ).

Etymology. Named in reference to its delicate appearance.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

IICT

Centro de Zoologia do I.I.C.T.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Hymenopodidae

SubFamily

Acromantinae

Genus

Otomantis

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