Anamiopteryx grandis Beier, 1935

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 : 60-61

Anamiopteryx grandis Beier, 1935

Figs 38 , 39a–b

Anamiopteryx grandis Beier, 1935a: 5 .

Type material

Holotype (1 male)

BRAZIL • ♂ ( Fig. 38 ); “// Type // Espirito-Santo / Brasil. / ex coll. Fruhstorfer. // genitalia / A. Agudelo / August 2017 // H. Fruhstorfer / vend. 6.III.1898 // “Gen. nov.” / 1 ♂ Espirito Santo / t. v. Brunn 1900. / sec. Coll. Brunner v. W. / nach Miopteryx / vor Pseudomiopter. // Anamiopteryx / grandis / n.sp. / det. Beier / Type! ♂ ”; ZMH 841092 .

Paratype (1 female)

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ ( Fig. 39a–b ); “// Espirito Santo / (Brasil.) / J. Michaelis vend. / 22.IV.1898. // Anamiopteryx grandis / n. sp. / det. Beier / Type! ♀ / After the existing pictures / were made back in 2012 this / specimen went missing. / Therefore no ventral habitus / exists.”; ZMH 861000 .

Type locality

Brazil: Espírito Santo.

Current status

Valid species.

Habitus

Holotype male incomplete: second pair of legs is missing. Genitalia were prepared after the images were taken.

Remarks

One paratype female could not be recovered and hence has to be considered lost.

Figures

Fig. 38. Anamiopteryx grandis Beier, 1935, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841092). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–e. Genitalia. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 1.00 mm.

Fig. 39. a–b. Anamiopteryx grandis Beier, 1935, paratype, ♀ (ZMH 861000). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c–g. Bantia metzi Beier, 1935, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841077). c. Labels. d. Dorsal view. e. Ventral view. f–g. Genitalia. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 1.00 mm.