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Stagmomantis heterogamia Saussure and Zehntner 1894

Description

Stagmomantis heterogamia Saussure and Zehntner, 1894

Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis heterogamia by Saussure and Zehntner (1894). Synonym: Uromantis (Stagmomantis) heterogamia (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927).

Distribution. USA and Central America (Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo et al. 2007).

Species description. Saussure and Zehntner (1894); Giglio-Tos (1927), as Uromantis; Rehn (1935b), brief.

Features. Male features: forewings with opaque, green marginal strip; cross-veins of discoidal field of the tegmina are transverse, tending to lie at right angles to main veins; hindwings with gray spots on distal tips (Giglio- Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b; Jantsch 1985). Female features: forewings are short, covering the first two abdominal segments; hindwings are opaque yellow at base, posterior portion is tessellated with yellow spots; elongate body; stigma is not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin concolore); pronotum edge is delicately denticulated (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b; Jantsch 1985).

Notes

Published as part of Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), pp. 501-525 in Zootaxa 3765 (6) on page 516, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/231377

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Biodiversity

Family
Mantidae
Genus
Stagmomantis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mantodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Saussure and Zehntner
Species
heterogamia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stagmomantis heterogamia and, 1894 sec. Maxwell, 2014