A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae) Author Maxwell, Michael R. text Zootaxa 2014 3765 6 501 525 journal article 46390 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.1 a8a990cc-d7bd-4807-a844-8a5bfb5ca6ec 1175-5326 231377 5A8E3EA1-197E-48F5-83DA-8E8327E45B9B Stagmomantis vicina Saussure, 1870 Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis vicina by Saussure (1870). Synonyms: Oromantis vicina (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927), Uromantis centralis (given in Hebard 1923b), Uromantis similis (given in Hebard 1923b). Callimantis floridana (Scudder 1896) given as a synonym by Ehrmann (2002). Distribution. USA and Mexico through Central America (Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo et al. 2007). Species description. Saussure (1870), brief; Saussure and Zehntner (1894), brief; Giglio-Tos (1927), as Oromantis ; Rehn (1935b), brief. Features. S. vicina is relatively short for this genus (Table 2). Male features: wings do not reach the end of the abdomen; forewings are completely hyaline and membranous, with a transparent marginal strip (hyaline or subhyaline); hindwings have dark spots; edge of the pronotum is smooth (Saussure 1870; Giglio-Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b). Female features: forewings are relatively short; hindwings are anteriorly yellow and posteriorly dark; the apices of the hindwings, when closed, are abruptly truncate; stigma is not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin concolore) (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Rehn 1935b). The inner surface of the anterior femora may have one or two black spots; green individuals tend to lack this marking (Rehn 1935b).