New records of praying mantis (Mantodea) from Thailand
Author
Unnahachote, T.
Author
Samung, Y.
Author
Waengsothorn, S.
Author
Jaitrong, W.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-11-12
395
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.395.4
journal article
10.25221/fee.395.4
2713-2196
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Parapsychomantis vietnamensis
Shcherbakov, 2017
Figs 3–6
,
14
Parapsychomantis vietnamensis
Shcherbakov, 2017: 416
, figs 1–4, 7, 20–21, 28–29, 37–39.
Type locality:
Vietnam
,
Binh Phuoc
,
Dong Nai
and
Lam Dong
provinces (
ZIN
,
holotype
male and
paratype
female)
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Thailand
:
Chanthaburi province
,
Soi Dao district
,
Pa Tong
subdistrict,
Soi Dao Waterfall
13°05´49´´N
,
102°10´20´´E
,
17.V 2008
,
1 male
(THNHM-I-
11042,
THNHM
),
T
. Jeenthong leg.
DIAGNOSIS.
Adult male
. Head wider than broad, vertex with tubercle above ocelli, compound eye large, oval and strongly convex; pronotum elongated, lateral margin of prozona and metazona with small blunt spine and large tubercles respectively; wings present, not truncate at tip, hind wing transparent; ground color of fore coxa yellowish brown, except the apical portion with black mark ventrally; fore femur slightly convex before middle; posteroventral margin of middle femur with three lobes, distal lobe largest; cerci cylindrical.
Male genitalia
. Right phallomere,
fda
elongate,
pva
well sclerotized strongly curved. Ventral phallomere,
sdp
present, short. Left phallomere,
paa
and
afa
present, short.
DISTRIBUTION.
Thailand
(
new record
). –
Vietnam
(Shcherbakov, 2017).
REMARK. We found a specimen of the species deposited in the THNHM that was col-
lected in
Chanthaburi province
, Eastern
Thailand
in lowland dry evergreen forest.
Family
Toxoderidae Saussure, 1869
Subfamily
Toxoderinae Saussure, 1869
Tribe
Toxoderini Saussure, 1869