Archimantis latistyla gigantea 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 : 33-35

Archimantis latistyla gigantea Beier, 1963

Figs 21f–h , 22a–c

Mantis latistylus Audinet-Serville, 1838: 179–180 .

Archimantis latistyla gigantea Beier, 1963: 9 .

Archimantis latistyla – Milledge 1997: 27–31 (syn.).

Type material

Holotype (1 female)

AUSTRALIA • ♀ ( Fig. 21f–h ); “// Type / Mus. Godeffroy / 2677 / O.273 ♀ / Rockhampton . // Zool. Mus. / Hamburg // Archimantis / latistyla ssp. / gigantea nov. / det. Beier ♀ ”; ZMH 841124 .

Paratype (1 male)

AUSTRALIA • 1 ♂ ( Fig. 22a–c ): “// Paratypoid // Archimantis / latistyla ssp. / giantea nov. / det. Beier ♂ // Mus. Godeffroy / 26.79 O.265 ♂ / Ost-Australien.”; ZMH 76961 .

Type locality

Rockhampton [ Australia].

Current status

Synonym of Archimantis latistyla ( Audinet-Serville, 1838) .

Habitus

Complete.

Figures

Fig. 21. a–e. Brancsikia simplex Beier, 1935, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841087). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–e. Genitalia. f–h. Archimantis latistyla gigantea Beier, 1963, holotype, ♀ (ZMH 841124). f. Labels. g. Dorsal view.h. Ventral view. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 0.50 mm.

Fig. 22. a–c. Archimantis latistyla gigantea Beier, 1963, paratype, ♂ (ZMH 76961). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–h. Choeradodis columbica Beier, 1931, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841082). d. Labels. e. Dorsal view. f. Ventral view. g–h. Genitalia. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 1.00 mm.