Photina Burmeister, 1838

As in the previous Tithrone species, Tithrone catharinensis also was classified in the wrong genus (Piza, 1961). The female holotype (from Pinhal, Santa Catharina state, Brazil), also deposited at ESALQ, was found to be a member of Photina Burmeister, 1838 (Fig. 7 a). Further analyses of this material and the holotype of Photina laevis Giglio- Tos, 1915 (from the same locality) (Fig. 7 b), the latter recently recognized as the female of P. vitrea by Agudelo (2014b), revealed T. catharinensis also as conspecific to P. vitrea .

The complete list of synonyms known for this species is as follows:

Photina vitrea (Burmeister, 1838)

Mantis (Photina) vitrea Burmeister, 1838 = Mantis pellucida Serville, 1839

= Mantis longicornis Charpentier, 1841

= Cardioptera translucida Saussure, 1869 = Cardioptera [ Mantis (Photina)] vitrea (Burmeister, 1838) = Photina gracilis Giglio-Tos, 1915

= Photina laevis Giglio-Tos, 1915

= Tithrone catharinensis Piza,1961 n . syn.