Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963

Nguyen, Eileen, Husemann, Martin & Ehrmann, Reinhard, 2024, An annotated type catalogue of praying mantises (Mantodea) in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH), European Journal of Taxonomy 964, pp. 1-79 : 43-45

Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963

Fig. 28

Mantis flavoguttata Audinet-Serville, 1838: 183–184 .

Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963: 10 .

Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata – Lombardo & Umbriaco 2011: 31–34 (syn.).

Type material

Holotype (1 male)

SURINAME • ♂ ( Fig. 28 ); “// Type // Surinam / ex. Coll. Fruhstorfer // Parastagmat. / abnormis / n. sp. / det. Beier / Type! ♂ // H. Fruhstorfer / vend. 6.III.1898. // P. flavoguttata / DET / LOMB.-UMB. 2010 // Parastagmatoptera [ Mantis ] flavoguttata / ( Audinet-Serville, 1838): #10, 183–184 / syn. nov. Parastagmatoptera abnormis / Beier, 1963: 10 – Holotypus ♂ / Lombardo & Umbriaco, 2011: 31–34. / Gen.-Präparat, getrocknet, / F. Lombardo, IX.2009 – XII.2010 ”; ZMH 841104 .

Type locality

Suriname.

Current status

Synonym of Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata ( Audinet-Serville, 1838) .

Habitus

Complete. Genitalia were prepared after the images were taken.

Remarks

Lombardo and Umbriaco discuss the fact that the present specimen is parasitized by a horsehair worm (Nematomorpha) and justify, based on morphological features, that it is an intersexual individual, i.e., that it bears intermediate rather than sex-specific characteristics, especially the wings and ocelli ( Lombardo & Umbriaco 2011).

Figures

Fig. 28. Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841104). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–e. Genitalia. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 1.00 mm.