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 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-08-10 4824 1 1 66 journal article 8739 10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1 64896e02-1182-4af2-b69d-90eb4cc6aaa6 1175-5326 4401992 114A0A70-50EC-467C-81BE-4B8E453113F5 Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838 ( Figs. 84–85, 87 , 147 ) Acontista aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838: 531 . Type locality. Brazil ( Burmeister 1838 ) . Records. CeNak: ♂ , 16.IX.1973 , leg. H. W. Koepcke. SMNK : ♀ , 230 m , 21.IX.–08.X.2012 , leg. K. Schönitzer (SMNK-Mant 12828, ex. ZSM ). ZSM : ♂ , 230 m , lux, V.2015 , leg. E. Diller ( Fig. 84 ); ♀ , 220 m , 21.IX.–04.X.2004 , lux, leg. K. Schönitzer , T. Kothe, M . Breitsameter, O . Conle & F. Hennemann ( Fig. 85 ) . Distribution. Brazil , Ecuador , Peru . Remarks. This species is not identical with the SE Brazilian A. concinna , as suspected by Kirby (1904) and Heitzmann-Fontenelle (1965) . Our specimens agree with the ones from the MRSN identified by E. Giglio-Tos as A. aurantiaca . This species is very common in Peru and Ecuador , but has often been recorded as A. concinna in the past (see also Rivera & Vergara-Cobián 2017 ). The nymphs of this species exhibit morphological and behavioral ant mimicry ( Fig. 147 ). Early instars use several sympatric species of the genus Pseudomyrmex as a model (see also Salazar 2003a ), while later instars resemble Ectatomma tuberculatum (pers. obs.).