Dry leaf or twig mantis? A new genus and species of Acanthopidae with sexually dimorphic cryptic strategies (Insecta: Mantodea)
Author
Agudelo, Antonio A.
Author
Maldaner, Caroline
Author
Rafael, José A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-02-25
4560
2
331
344
journal article
27418
10.11646/zootaxa.4560.2.6
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1175-5326
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Metacanthops amazonica
(
Beier, 1930
)
n. comb.
Acanthops amazonica
Beier, 1930
: 29
(
Fig.1
); 1934: 3; Travassos-Filho 1945: 179;
Terra 1995
: 29
;
Ehrmann 2002
: 48
;
Otte & Spearman 2005
: 7
.
Metilia amazonica
;
Roy 2002
: 174
;
Lombardo & Ippolito 2004
: 1
;
Agudelo
et al.
2007
: 115
;
Ehrmann & Koçak 2009
: 3
.
Agudelo 2018
(CTFB).
Diagnosis
. Body coloration dark brown. Pseudophallus long in relation to titillator, broader at the base, tapering towards the apex, the latter lanceolate, sclerified and sharp, left margins with some denticles, opposite margin with elongated, basal spines, which decrease in length and sclerification level towards the apex. Hypophallus longer than broad, distal apophysis elongated and strongly curved or sinuous.