Revision of the genus Deroplatys Westwood, 1839 (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) with the description of three new species Author Zhang, Jia-Zhi Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK Author Price, Benjamin 0000-0001-5497-4087 Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, UK & Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK & b. price @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5497 - 4087 Corresponding author: richardzhangjiazhi @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2819 - 9731 & Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK b.price@nhm.ac.uk text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-26 5445 1 1 68 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5445.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5445.1.1 1175-5334 11070655 DC8037E1-6DB0-46E5-B417-007D4264C0F9 Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998 ( Figs. 8A; 8B; 8F; 8I; 8K;8N ; 9A ) Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998: 95-99 ( 2♂ ; ♀ ); Ehrmann 2002: 119 ( ♂ , ♀ ). Type material: Holotype . 1 ♂ , Vietnam , prov. Gia Lai , 20 km N of Kannack , Buon Luoi , 22-31.111. 1995 A. Gorochov. Paratypes : 1♂ same locality , 3-11X1.1993; 1♀ , same data , “collected as last instar nymph, moulted to imago in laboratory in beginning of January 1994 ” A. Gorochov . Diagnostic features and description: see Anisyutkin (1998) . Distribution. Vietnam Remarks. The external morphologies resemble the Deroplatys truncata , but minor differences can be found in the male hindwing’s apex and the genitalia. Compared with Deroplatys truncata , the titilator (paa) has a very different shape. D. truncata has a narrower and curvier paa compared to D. gorochovi . The male hindwing’s apex is more acute in Deroplatys truncata . Although it is not mentioned in the original description, however, it seems the ratio of pronotum prozona and metazona of the female can be used to distinguish between the females of the two species. The length of the metazona of female Deroplatys truncata is three times longer than its prozona, whereas the D. gorochovi are equal to three times longer or less. Therefore, without examining more specimens, this characteristic can be used as an identification key to separating two species.