Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera)
Author
Schwarz, Christian J.
Author
Ehrmann, Reinhard
antodea@t-online.de
Author
Stiewe, Martin B. D.
0000-0001-9591-9244
m.stiewe@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Mörtter, Rolf
0000-0002-2370-0689
rolf.moertter@smnk.de
Author
Falkenberg, Michael
0000-0002-2376-0825
m.falkenberg@smnk.de
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-10
4824
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journal article
8739
10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1
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1175-5326
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Oxyopsis festae
Giglio-Tos, 1914
(
Figs. 108–109
,
128
,
151
)
Oxyopsis festae
Giglio-Tos, 1914: 14–15
.
=
Oxyopsis peruviana
Chopard, 1916: 182–184
(
new synonym
).
Type
locality.
(
O. festae
) Gualaquiza,
Ecuador
(
Giglio-Tos 1914
); (
O. peruviana
) Pozuzo,
Peru
(
Chopard 1916
).
Records.
CeNak:
♂
,
VII.1972
, leg.
Kaiser.
MUSM
:
2 ♂♂
,
230 m
, lux,
06.X.2014
, leg.
M. Falkenberg
(ex.
SMNK
)
;
♀
,
230 m
, lux,
04.X.2014
, leg.
M. Falkenberg
(ex.
SMNK
).
NMB
:
♂
,
02.–18.X.2009
, leg.
E.-G. Burmeister
(QRNMB-Mant 1193, ex.
ZSM
).
SMNK
:
♂
,
220 m
, lux,
21.IX.–03.X.2004
, leg. J. & R. Oehlke (SMNK-Mant 07919,
Fig. 108
);
♂
,
03.–10.IX.2006
, leg. W. Braun (SMNK-Mant 06518);
2 ♂♂
,
230 m
, lux,
04.X.2014
, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12577–12578);
4 ♂♂
,
230 m
, lux,
25.IV.2018
, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12837–12840);
♀
,
230 m
, lux,
04.X.2014
, leg.
M. Falkenberg
(SMNK-Mant 12841).
ZSM
:
♂
,
260 m
,
21.IX.–04.X.2004
, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe, M. Breitsameter, O. Conle & F. Hennemann;
♀
,
260 m
,
22.IX.–03.X.2004
, leg. O. Conle & F. Hennemann (
Fig. 109
);
♂
,
02.–18.X.2009
, leg.
X.2010
, leg. E. Diller;
♀
,
230 m
,
malaise trap
,
V.2013
, leg.
E. Diller.
CSC
:
♂
,
230 m
, lux,
08.X.2016
, leg.
M. Falkenberg
,
M. Schlemm
&
R. Mörtter
(genitalia preparation
Schwarz No.
340,
Fig. 128
) (ex.
SMNK
)
;
♂
,
230 m
, lux,
7.IV.2018
, leg.
M. Falkenberg
(genitalia preparation
Schwarz No.
409) (ex.
SMNK
)
.
Distribution.
Ecuador
,
Peru
.
FIGURES 108–109.
Oxyopsis festae
Giglio-Tos, 1914
. 108. Male in dorsal view. 109. Female in dorsal view. Scale bar: 10 mm.
Remarks.
This is a very variable species, with
O. festae
representing the lower and
O. peruviana
the upper limits of female variation. Comparison of Panguana and topotypical
O. peruviana
material with both original descriptions and with photographs of the
types
of
O. festae
(MRSN)
and
O. peruviana
(MNCN)
, and of the male genitalia of Peruvian and Ecuadorian (
Lombardo & Agabiti 2001
) specimens did not reveal any distinguishing features other than size or intraspecific variation, hence the synonymy. The apex of the female tegmen is prone to variation but always more or less rounded, and not as distinctly acute as in
O. acutipennis
(
Stål, 1877
)
, a species which is also overall shorter and stouter. The hind femora are supposed to be slightly longer than the metazona in
O. peruviana
but as long as the metazona in
O. festae
. However, this difference is just minimal in
O. peruviana
and the original measurings by E. Giglio-Tos when he descibed
O. festae
were not particularly accurate, so it is not evident how stringently he understood “as long as”. In most specimens investigated by us the hind femora are slightly (≤
1 mm
) longer than the metazona.