Lobocneme Rehn, 1911

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 : 202

Genus Lobocneme Rehn, 1911

Lobocneme Rehn, 1911: 10 .

Paroxyopsis Rehn, 1911: 8 (n. syn.).

Lobocneme . ‒ Giglio-Tos, 1914: 37. ‒ Giglio-Tos, 1927: 600. ‒ Beier, 1964: 950. ‒ Terra, 1995: 68. ‒ Cerdà, 1997: 22. ‒ Ehrmann, 2002: 208. ‒ Otte & Spearman, 2005. ‒ Agudelo et al., 2007: 110.

Paroxyopsis . ‒ Giglio-Tos, 1914: 19. ‒ Giglio-Tos, 1927: 588. ‒ Beier, 1964: 950. ‒ Terra, 1995: 68. ‒ Ehrmann, 2002: 275. ‒ Otte & Spearman, 2005. ‒ Agudelo et al., 2007: 110.

Type species: Parastagmatoptera lobipes

Redten-

bacher, 1892 by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Mantises of medium size (length of body from head to tip of abdomen between 30-32 mm) with a general ochre appearance. Both sexes are fully winged, these are hyaline in the male, opache and coloured in the female. Pronotum elongated; fore coxae far shorter than the metazona and with an internal basal black strip (Figs 1-2); middle and hind femora with a small apical lobe. Spination formula F= 15 IS/ 5 ES/ 4 DS and T= 14 IS/ 11 ES. External genitalia, with phalloid apophysis (Figs 3-4) constituted by a broader anterior branch and an elongated posterior branch; ventral phallomere directed downwards (Fig. 5).

Remarks: Lobocneme is the best candidate to be the sister genus of Parastagmatoptera recently revised by Lombardo et al. (2014), because it shares the same shape of the pronotum, the black spot on the inner surface of the fore coxae and the same structural model of the external male genitalia. It can be distinguished based on its middle and hind femora that have a small lobe on the apical portion of the posterior ventral carina.