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<mods:title>Notes on the genus Theopropus Saussure (Mantodea, Hymenopodidae) from China, with description of a new species from the Himalayas</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName LSID="00F2783E-40DE-5218-8FCD-C5A097FF5FAE" authority="Wu &amp; Liu" authorityName="Wu &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Hymenopodidae" genus="Theopropus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Theopropus sinecus subsp. qiongae" order="Mantodea" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="sinecus" status="ssp. nov." subSpecies="qiongae">Theopropus sinecus qiongae Wu &amp; Liu</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Theopropus sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. body in dorsal view and ootheca A female, paratype B male, paratype C ootheca." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569710" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Figs 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Male genitalia of Theopropus spp., Disarticulated genital complex, ventral view A T. sinecus sinecus from Guangxi, Jinxiu B T. xishiae sp. nov. holotype C T. sp. from Yunnan, Mengla D T. xishiae sp. nov. paratype E T. sinecus sinecus from Yunnan, Honghe F T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. holotype. Abbreviations: afa = phalloid apophysis; bl = basal lobe of ventral phallomere; fda = main posterior lobe of right phallomere; loa = membra- nous lobe; paa = posterior process of left phallomere; pda = primary distal process; pia = process posterolateral to pva of right phallomere; pva = process anteromesal to pia of right phallomere; sdp = secondary distal process." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569716" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">; 10F</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. Distribution map of the distribution Theopropus spp. in South China. ▲: T. sinecus sinecus; ●: T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov.; * T. xishiae sp. nov.; ★: T. sp .." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569718" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">; 12</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 13" captionStartId="F13" captionText="Figure 13. Theopropus spp. adult in its natural habitat A, B T. sinecus sinecus C T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. D T. xishiae sp. nov. E, F T. sp. A, C, E female B pair D, E male." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure13" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569719" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">; 13C</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 14" captionStartId="F14" captionText="Figure 14. Theopropus spp. nymph in its natural habitat and environment A T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. female nymph in Hainan Is B T. xishiae sp. nov. male nymph in Medog C T. sinecus sinecus of Guangxi, Longsheng, Huaping D T. xishiae sp. nov. of Tibet, Medog, Beibeng E T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. of Hainan Is. Jianfengling Mt. F T. sp. of Yunnan, Mengla, Mohan." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure14" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569720" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">; 14A, E</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authority="Wu &amp; Liu, 2021" authorityName="Wu &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Hymenopodidae" genus="Theopropus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Theopropus cattulus" order="Mantodea" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cattulus" status="ssp. nov.">Theopropus cattulus</taxonomicName>
,
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: 56-58 (erroneously identified).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
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<specimenCount type="male">10♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">6♀</specimenCount>
.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
.
</emphasis>
<collectingCountry name="China">China</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Ledong</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jianfengling Mt.</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:4D1A2AD8DB3B39D017AD853F8D74CA65" country="China" county="Ledong" longitude="108.84111" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." name="Mingfenggu" stateProvince="Hainan">Mingfenggu</location>
; 18°44'75&quot;N,
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;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.5" unit="m" value="950.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.5" unit="m" value="950.0">950 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2020-06-30">30-VI-2020</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
; Chao Wu leg.; IZCAS.
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2016-11-15" collectorName="China" country="China" county="Ledong" elevation="900" latitude="18.740278" location="Tianchi" longLatPrecision="21" longitude="108.860275" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="2" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="Paratypes">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<typeStatus>Paratypes</typeStatus>
.
</emphasis>
<collectorName>China</collectorName>
<specimenCount type="female">2♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Ledong</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jianfengling Mt.</collectingMunicipality>
,
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;
<geoCoordinate degrees="18" direction="north" minutes="44" orientation="latitude" precision="15" seconds="25" value="18.740278">18°44'25&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
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;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.0" unit="m" value="900.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.0" unit="m" value="900.0">900 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2016-11-15">15-XI-2016</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2010-04-10" collectorName="Chao Wu" country="China" county="Ledong" location="Tianchi" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Chao Wu</collectorName>
leg. IZCAS. •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Ledong</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jianfengling Mt.</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:47DE0FAD23C292AD1C4545223034816E" country="China" county="Ledong" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." name="Tianchi" stateProvince="Hainan">Tianchi</location>
;
<collectingDate value="2010-04-10">10-IV-2010</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2020-07-20" collectorName="Xin-Lei Huang" country="China" county="Baisha" elevation="750" latitude="18.888056" location="Wuzhishan Mt." longLatPrecision="21" longitude="109.66694" municipality="Shuiman" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Xin-Lei Huang</collectorName>
leg. IZCAS. •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Baisha</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Shuiman</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:89E2E72DDE628E12DE4CFCA3656A6E3D" country="China" county="Baisha" latitude="18.888056" longLatPrecision="21" longitude="109.66694" municipality="Shuiman" name="Wuzhishan Mt." stateProvince="Hainan">Wuzhishan Mt.</location>
;
<geoCoordinate degrees="18" direction="north" minutes="53" orientation="latitude" precision="15" seconds="17" value="18.888056">18°53'17&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="109" direction="east" minutes="40" orientation="longitude" precision="15" seconds="01" value="109.66694">109°40'01&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.5" unit="m" value="750.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.5" unit="m" value="750.0">750 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2020-07-20">20-VII-2020</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2014-10-23" collectorName="Chao Wu, Cai-Wen Nie" country="China" county="Baisha" elevation="600" location="Ying'geling Mt." municipality="Hongkan" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Chao Wu</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>Cai-Wen Nie</collectorName>
leg.; CWC. •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Baisha</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Hongkan</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:5599D67F42B1301B8589485A88FAC61F" country="China" county="Baisha" municipality="Hongkan" name="Ying'geling Mt." stateProvince="Hainan">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Yinggeling">Ying'geling</normalizedToken>
Mt.
</location>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.0" unit="m" value="600.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.0" unit="m" value="600.0">600 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2014-10-23">23-X-2014</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2014-10-20" collectorName="Chao Wu" country="China" elevation="700" location="Limushan Mt." municipality="Qiongzhong" specimenCount="7" specimenCount-male="7" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Chao Wu</collectorName>
leg.; CWC. •
<specimenCount type="male">3♂</specimenCount>
; same as before; IZCAS. •
<specimenCount type="male">4♂</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Qiongzhong</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:4AA8B9A8D6948713660F8509F6FD1C80" country="China" municipality="Qiongzhong" name="Limushan Mt." stateProvince="Hainan">Limushan Mt.</location>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.0" unit="m" value="700.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.0" unit="m" value="700.0">700 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2014-10-20">20-X-2014</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2014-10-28" collectorName="Chao Wu" country="China" county="Ledong" elevation="950" location="Mingfenggu" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Chao Wu</collectorName>
leg.; CWC. •
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Ledong</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jianfengling Mt.</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:6CD91F6829773BCD6C4EE8B5ED536521" country="China" county="Ledong" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." name="Mingfenggu" stateProvince="Hainan">Mingfenggu</location>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.5" unit="m" value="950.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.5" unit="m" value="950.0">950 m</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="2014-10-28">28-X-2014</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2017-12-20" collectorName="Chao Wu" country="China" county="Ledong" location="Mingfenggu" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Hainan" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectorName>Chao Wu</collectorName>
leg.; CWC. •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Hainan">Hainan</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Ledong</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jianfengling Mt.</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:00F2783E40DE52188FCDC5A097FF5FAE:3B28296609BF5F65F368C854F76076B7" country="China" county="Ledong" municipality="Jianfengling Mt." name="Mingfenggu" stateProvince="Hainan">Mingfenggu</location>
;
<collectingDate value="2017-12-20">20-XII-2017</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
; Jia-Zhi Zhang leg.; CJZ. •
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
; same as before.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="163" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Male.</emphasis>
Similar to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Valerianaceae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="T. s. subsp. sinecus" order="Orthoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" rank="subSpecies" species="s." subSpecies="sinecus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">T. s. sinecus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Theopropus sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. body in dorsal view and ootheca A female, paratype B male, paratype C ootheca." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569710" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">4A, B</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Male genitalia of Theopropus spp., Disarticulated genital complex, ventral view A T. sinecus sinecus from Guangxi, Jinxiu B T. xishiae sp. nov. holotype C T. sp. from Yunnan, Mengla D T. xishiae sp. nov. paratype E T. sinecus sinecus from Yunnan, Honghe F T. sinecus qiongae ssp. nov. holotype. Abbreviations: afa = phalloid apophysis; bl = basal lobe of ventral phallomere; fda = main posterior lobe of right phallomere; loa = membra- nous lobe; paa = posterior process of left phallomere; pda = primary distal process; pia = process posterolateral to pva of right phallomere; pva = process anteromesal to pia of right phallomere; sdp = secondary distal process." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1049.65295.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/569716" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">10F</figureCitation>
), except the following characteristics: smaller; on surface of forewing, the white subbasal spot of discoidal area small, even disappearing in some specimens; white band at the middle of discoidal area narrow, the two black parallel arc-shaped lateral borders of the white band converging at their distal ends in rare instances; hindwing base reddish brown, with red-brownish veins.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Female.</emphasis>
Similar to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Valerianaceae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="T. s. subsp. sinecus" order="Orthoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" rank="subSpecies" species="s." subSpecies="sinecus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">T. s. sinecus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but smaller. The forewing is similar to male, white spot in base of discoidal area small or indistinct, white band in middle of discoidal area narrow; hindwings opaque, maize-yellow, with hyaline margin.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="163" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
<bibRefCitation author="Zhu, XY" journalOrPublisher="Xiyuan Publishing House, Beijing" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" refId="B25" refString="Zhu, XY, Wu, C, Yuan, Q, 2012. Mantodea in China. Xiyuan Publishing House, Beijing" title="Mantodea in China." year="2012">Zhu et al. (2012)</bibRefCitation>
identified the specimens from Hainan Island as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Theopropus cattulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Westwood, 1889). After checking the pictures of the types of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">T. cattulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Westwood, 1889 in &quot;The
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Image Database&quot; https://specimens.mantodearesearch.com/default/zoom/835, we found that there is only a small black spot on each lateral margin of the metazone in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">T. cattulus</emphasis>
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, whereas, in those specimens from Hainan Island, a black band extends backwards on each lateral margin of metazone. Also,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Theopropus cattulus</emphasis>
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is endemic on Java, Indonesia. Thus, we think the identification of these specimens from Hainan Island in
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is wrong. We establish a new subspecies of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">T. sinecus</emphasis>
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for these specimens from Hainan Island.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Measurements</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">(length in mm, holotype in parentheses).</emphasis>
Body (head to wings): male 27.9-28.6 (28.5), female 44.9-46.2; body (vertex to abdomen end): male 22.0-26.5 (25.8), female 40.3-42.1; pronotum: male 5.8-6.0(5.9), female 11.6-11.9; fore coxae: male 5.8-6.0 (5.9), female 12.88-13.02; fore femora: male 6.9-7.1 (7.0), female 14.0-14.9; fore tibiae: male 5.2-5.3 (5.2), female 10.4-10.9; middle femora: male 5.9-6.0 (5.9), female 10.3-10.6; hind femora: male 7.0-7.2 (7.1), female 12.0-13.1; forewing: male 20.0-20.1 (20.1), female 28.5-30.0; hindwing: male 18.2-18.9 (18.6), female 24.9-25.9.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">China: Hainan Island.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="163">The new subspecies was named after the other name for Hainan Island, Qiong.</paragraph>
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