New and little-known species of genus Pliacanthopus Giglio-Tos (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Nanomantidae)
Author
Wu, Chao
Author
Liu, Chun-Xiang
text
Journal of Natural History
2022
J. Nat. Hist.
2022-09-19
56
29 - 32
1279
1296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2117106
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10.1080/00222933.2022.2117106
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Pliacanthopus
(
Malayamantis
)
malayanus
(
Beier, 1931
)
Xanthomantis malayana
Beier, 1931: 150
.
Xanthomantis
(
Xanthomantis
)
malayana
: Beier 1935: 61
;
Ehrmann 2002: 365
;
Otte and Spearman 2005: 126
.
Pliacanthopus
(
Malayamantis
)
malayanus
:
Koçak and Kemal 2008: 9
;
Schwarz 2021: 40
.
Type
locality
Malaysia
:
Selangor
, Bukit Kutu
.
Notes
This species is similar to
P.
(
M.
)
flavus
; prothoracic tibiae are armed with only 10 posteroventral spines (iIiiIiiiiI) in
P.
(
M.
)
malayanus
, compared to
12–13 in
P
. (
M
.)
flavus
. In addition, after checking the pictures of the
type
of
Xanthomantis malayana
Beier,
1932
in the Natural History Museum (
NHM
) Data Portal (
URL
: https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ 4ee76988-53b9-4399-a5f1-cfa57749dca6/1655337600000), we found that the juxtaocular bulges of the head do not have a black spot in
P.
(
M.
)
malayanus
; that feature distinguishes the species from
P.
(
M.
)
bimaculatus
.
Beier (1931)
indicated that the costal field of the fore wings is green in
P.
(
M.
)
malayanus
, but this feature is not seen in its
type
specimen. The abdomen of the
type
specimen is mutilated, and the characteristics of the cerci are unclear.
Figure 2.
Head and pronotum of
Pliacanthopus
spp.
, dorsal view. (a)
P.
(
M.
)
bimaculatus
, male; (b)
P.
(
M.
)
tricolor
sp. nov.
, female, photograph © Wen-Xuan Bi, published with permission.
Measurements
(length in mm) (
Beier 1931
)
Body: 20–21; pronotum: 4–4.2; fore wing: 16–16.5.
Distribution
Malaysia
:
Selangor
.