A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae)
Author
Maxwell, Michael R.
text
Zootaxa
2014
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journal article
46390
10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.1
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Stagmomantis fraterna
Saussure and Zehntner, 1894
Taxonomic history.
Described as
Stagmomantis fraterna
by Saussure and Zehntner (1894). Synonym:
Stagmomantis maya
(given in Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927).
Distribution.
Mexico
and Central
America
(Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo
et al.
2007).
Species description.
Saussure and Zehntner (1894); Giglio-Tos (1927).
Features.
Male features: forewings are completely hyaline, with green veins; marginal strip of the forewings is hyaline, with a broad base (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927). Rehn (1935b) describes the male's distinctive and unique cultiform (bladelike) hypophallus. Female features: hindwings are opaque yellow in anterior and basal regions, remainder being tessellated with yellow spots; apical edge of hindwings is green; stigma is linear and not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin
concolore);
eyes are somewhat prominent; pronotum with finely denticulated edge (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927).