Taxonomic Review of the Genus Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 (Mantodea: Eremiaphilidae) with description of a new species from India
Author
Kamila, A. P.
0000-0003-2159-2888
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala, India- 673006 & University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Malappuram, Kerala, India- 673635
kamiii619@gmail.com
Author
Sureshan, P. M.
0000-0003-4722-6368
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala, India- 673006
pmsuresh43@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-09-18
5512
1
53
66
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.4
1175-5326
13848391
49BF8920-C4C2-410C-B279-A11316A184EF
Didymocorypha libaii
Wu & Liu, 2020
Didymocorypha libaii
:
Wu and Liu, 2020: 56‒61
.
Type
species and locality.
Didymocorypha libaii
Wu and Liu, 2020
;
China
,
Tibet
,
Gyirong county
.
Diagnosis (from
Wu & Liu 2020
).
Lower frons trapezoidal. Ocelli small and indistinct. Fore femur with 4 posteroventral, 4 discoidal and 15‒16 anteroventral spines. Fore tibia about half as long as femur, with 5‒6 posteroventral and 10 anteroventral spines. Cerci elongated, with 15 segments, distal segments gradually becoming longer towards distal end. Last three segments longer than wide. Both sexes wingless.
Male genitalia relatively large. Left phallomere narrow and long with finger-like apical process (paa) and brush-like cluster of hairs. Anterior process of left phallomere (afa) wide, short and highly sclerotized, with spine-like structure. Distal process of ventral phallomere (sdp) indistinct.
Measurements are given in Table 1.
Distribution.
China
:
Tibet
(
Wu and Liu, 2020
).