A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea)
Author
Schwarz, Christian J.
Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany
Author
Pohl, Marius
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Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität M ̧ nster, H ̧ fferstrasse 1, 48149 M ̧ nster, Germany https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9342 - 0172
Author
Frank, Erik T.
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Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany & Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of W ̧ rzburg, Am Hubland, D- 97074 W ̧ rzburg, Germany https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2066 - 3202 * Corresponding author. ChristianSchw @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5575 - 9300 & Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-14
5373
1
1
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5373.1.1/52273
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1
1175-5334
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Heterochaeta strachani
(
Kirby, 1904
)
Figs. 69–70
Pseudochaeta strachani
Kirby, 1904: 88
.
=
Stenovates spectrum
Rehn, 1949: 215–219
, pl. VI,
Fig. 21
.
Type
localities.
(
P. s.
)
Lagos
,
Nigeria
; (
S. s.
)
Monrovia,
Liberia
.
FIGURES 60–65
.
Pyrgomantis pallida
Giglio-Tos, 1917
. 60–61, 64. Female. 62–63, 65. Male. 60, 62. Dorsal view. 61, 63, 65. Ventral view. 64. Anterior view of forebody. 65. Genitalia.
FIGURES 66–68
.
Pyrgomantis pallida
, live aspects. 66. Dorsolateral view of male. 67. Portrait of male. 68. Dorsolateral view of feeding female.
Distribution.
Senegal
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Guinea
,
Sierra Leone
,
Liberia
,
Mali
,
Ivory Coast
,
Burkina Faso
,
Ghana
,
Benin
,
Niger
,
Nigeria
,
Tchad
(
Beier 1968
;
Gillon & Roy 1968
;
Kirby 1904
;
Prost & Roy 1986
;
Ragge & Roy 1967
;
Rehn 1949
;
Roy 1964b
,
1971b
, 1975, 1977, 1978;
Roy & Leston 1975
).
Records.
CSC: ♁, new station,
22.IV.–06.VI.2018
, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks.
An ecologically generalist stick mantis inhabiting all kinds of habitats from forests to
Sudan
savannas.