Raptophasma Zompro 2001
- 1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.
- 2. Cherepovets State University, Lunacharsky Prospect 5, Cherepovets, Vologda Region, 162600, Russia. & Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117647 Russia. & Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia.
Description
Genus Raptophasma Zompro, 2001
Type species: Raptophasma kerneggeri Zompro, 2001, by original designation.
Diagnosis. This genus characterized by profemora without strong spine-like bristles ventrally and by thoracic and abdominal tergites with numerous short hair-like setae, while the spine-like bristles absent. By these features Raptophasma is easy recognizable from Adicophasma. From Jurassic Juramantophasma this genus differs by smaller size, proportions of femora, anterior margin of procoxae with one strong spine, and triangular female cerci (in J. sinicum Huang, Nel, Zompro & Waller, 2008, nom. corrected, body length 34 mm, profemora 2.5 times as long as wide, anterior margin of coxae with a dense row of setae, and female cerci hooked).
Composition. There are two species from Baltic amber one of which is described below.
Remarks. Recent genera of Mantophasmatodea differ by armature of femur, by chaetotaxy of thorax and abdomen, by shape of male and female terminalia, as well as by size and coloration of body and appendages (Klass et al., 2003; Wipfler et al., 2018). These features seem to be important for separating extinct genera also.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mantophasmatidae
- Genus
- Raptophasma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mantophasmatodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Zompro
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Raptophasma Zompro, 2001 sec. Perkovsky & Vasilenko, 2024
References
- Zompro, O. (2001) The Phasmatodea and Raptophasma n. gen., Orthoptera incertae sedis, in Baltic amber (Insecta: Orthoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Palaeontologischen Institut der Universitat Hamburg, 85, 229 - 261.
- Huang, D. Y., Nel, A., Zompro, O. & Waller, A. (2008) Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 947 - 952. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00114 - 008 - 0412 - x
- Klass, K. D., Picker, M. D., Damgaard, J., Noort, Sv. & Tojo, K. (2003) The taxonomy, genitalic morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 61, 3 - 67.
- Wipfler, B., Theska, T. & Predel, R. (2018) Mantophasmatodea from the Richtersveld in South Africa with description of two new genera and species. ZooKeys, 746, 137 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 746.14885