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 rg/0000-0002-9342-0 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. g/0000-0002-2066-320 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 nSchw@gmx. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-14 5373 1 1 64 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5373.1.1/52273 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1 1175-5334 10145768 51184B8D-2D44-466C-B5CD-D043F4563532 Epitenodera brevelytra ( Giglio-Tos, 1912 ) Figs. 174–175 Tenodera herbacea var. brevelytra Giglio-Tos, 1912: 52–53 . Type locality. Sakjé , Cameroon . Distribution. Guinea , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Togo , Nigeria , Cameroon ( Giglio-Tos 1912 ; Gillon & Roy 1968 ; Roy 2022 ). Records. CSC: ♀ , old camp, 24.X.2000 , leg. juv. C. J. Schwarz. FIGURES 174–175 . Epitenodera brevelytra ( Giglio-Tos, 1912 ) . Female. 174. Dorsal view. 175. Ventral view. Remarks. This species had been treated as Epitenodera brevipennis by Gillon & Roy (1968) . The genus was recently revised by Roy (2022) , who assigned the Lamto specimens recorded by Gillon & Roy (1968) to E. brevelytra . Our specimen fits the original description ( Saussure 1871b ), the type housed in the MFN, and the redescription given by Roy (2022) . This species differs from the putatively sympatric E. brevipennis by: smaller body size with an overall stouter body shape; the shorter pronotum (P/p 4.45–4.9 in males and 4.0–4.3 in females, as compared to 5.0–5.7 and 4.1–5.0 in E. brevipennis , respectively); comparatively longer tegmina in females, exceeding the supraanal plate in E. brevelytra while reaching the fifth tergite in E. brevipennis ; the costal field lacking the blackish stripe and the white costal stripe present in E. brevipennis ; and male genitalia ( Roy 2022 ). The second species of this genus recorded at Lamto, Epitenodera nimbana Roy, 1963 ( Gillon & Roy 1968 ), is distinguished from E. brevelytra by larger body size (up to 90 mm ), a black spot on the anterior femora, wings exceeding the tip of abdomen in females, and different male genitalia ( Gillon & Roy 1968 : Fig. 32 ; Roy 2022 ).