Lobocneme colombiae (Hebard, 1919)

Salvatrice Ippolito & Francesco Lombardo, 2015, Taxonomic considerations on Lobocneme Rehn, 1911 and Paroxyopsis Rehn, 1911 and a new synonymy (Insecta Mantodea: Stagmatopterinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 122 (2), pp. 201-206 : 203-204

Lobocneme colombiae (Hebard, 1919)

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Lobocneme colombiae Hebard, 1919: 137 .

Lobocneme colombiae . ‒ Giglio-Tos, 1927: 601. ‒ Beier, 1964: 950. ‒ Terra, 1995: 68. ‒ Cerdà, 1997: 22. ‒ Ehrmann, 2002: 208. ‒ Otte & Spearman, 2005. ‒ Agudelo et al., 2007: 110.

Material examined: NHMW; 2 females; Colombia, Isla Rosario Caribe, Agosto 1961, ( Heidi Stoker leg.) .

Note: This species was described by Hebard (1919) based on a single male from Santa Marta (Magdalena Dep.) in Colombia, and the holotype is deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia ( ANSP). To this species the two female specimens from Isla del Rosario mentioned above must also be assigned. We consider it useful to provide a short description of the female unknown until today.

Description of female: General coloration of body ochraceous ( Fig. 7); legs ochraceous; mesothoracic wings with costal area greenish; discoidal area brown. Methathoracic wings yellow.

Head: pentagonal 2.03 times as wide as pronotal supracoxal dilation; fastigium of the vertex slightly convex and more elevated than the imaginary line joining the apex of eyes; juxtaocular tubercles weakly developed; eyes weakly conical; frontal shield transverse about 2.5 times wider than high. Antennae elongated, all segments with two pairs of short hairs.

Torax: pronotum slender, about 4.31 times as long as the pronotal supracoxal dilation and 8.9 times as long as its minimum width; lateral margins with small denticles; supracoxal dilation not very developed and with lateral margins widely rounded. Disc of prozone with minute granules; disc of the metazone with an indistinct median carina extending about 1 / 3 of its length; ratio metazone/prozone is 2.8. Fore legs slender: coxae (Fig. 2) 0.62 times as long as the pronotum, prismatic with a triangular section; inner surface with a black band covering about 1 / 3 of the length of coxae; all margins with small tubercles with an apical short hair; inner distal lobes divergent. Femora 5.15 times as long as its maximum width, upper margin almost straight, all spines ochre with brown apex. Tibiae reaching half the length of the femora, all spines green with brown apex. Spination formula F= 14-16 IS/ 5 ES/ 4 DS and T= 14-15 IS/ 11 ES. Middle and hind legs slender; femora smooth, tibiae and tarsi with scarcely hairs. Posterior metatarsi 1.6 times as long as all other segments together. Wings well-developed, extending well beyond the apex of the abdomen; mesothoracic wing opaque about 2.8 their maximum width, with numerous windows on the discoidal area; metathoracic wing yellow with numerous concentric hyalinae windows. Abdomen: slender and cylindrical. Supranal plate short, triangular with rounded apex. Cerci extending beyond the subgenital plate, all segments cylindrical wider than long and densely hairy.

Dimensions [mm]: Total length body 32-33; width head 6.45-6.5; length prozona 3.45-3.8; length metazona 9.9-10.4; supracoxal dilation of pronotum 3.15-3.25; minimum width of pronotum 1.5-1.6; length coxae 8.4- 8.9; length femur 9.9-10.7; maximun width of femur 1.9-2.1; length tegmina 20-20.2; maximum width tegmina 0.7-0.8.

Distribution: P. colombiae occurs in Colombia, in a unspecified locality of Venezuela (Cerdà, 1977), and in the Lesser Antilles (Ehrmann, 2002). It is our opinion that this latter area must be eliminated because a bibliographic research produced no evidence for the presence of this species in these territories.