Parapsychomantis vietnamensis Shcherbakov, 2017

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Parapsychomantis vietnamensis Shcherbakov, 2017

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Parapsychomantis vietnamensis Shcherbakov, 2017: 416 , figs 1–4, 7, 20–21, 28–29, 37–39.

Type locality: Vietnam, Binh Phuoc, Dong Nai and Lam Dong provinces ( ZIN, holotype male and paratype female) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Thailand: Chanthaburi province, Soi Dao district, Pa Tong subdistrict, Soi Dao Waterfall 13°05´49´´N, 102°10´20´´E, 17.V 2008, 1 male (THNHM-I-

11042, THNHM), T. Jeenthong leg.

DIAGNOSIS. Adult male. Head wider than broad, vertex with tubercle above ocelli, compound eye large, oval and strongly convex; pronotum elongated, lateral margin of prozona and metazona with small blunt spine and large tubercles respectively; wings present, not truncate at tip, hind wing transparent; ground color of fore coxa yellowish brown, except the apical portion with black mark ventrally; fore femur slightly convex before middle; posteroventral margin of middle femur with three lobes, distal lobe largest; cerci cylindrical. Male genitalia. Right phallomere, fda elongate, pva well sclerotized strongly curved. Ventral phallomere, sdp present, short. Left phallomere, paa and afa present, short.

DISTRIBUTION. Thailand (new record). – Vietnam (Shcherbakov, 2017).

REMARK. We found a specimen of the species deposited in the THNHM that was col-

lected in Chanthaburi province, Eastern Thailand in lowland dry evergreen forest.

Family Toxoderidae Saussure, 1869

Subfamily Toxoderinae Saussure, 1869

Tribe Toxoderini Saussure, 1869

Figures

Figs 1–6. Praying mantis. 1, 2 – Didymocorypha lanceolata: 1 – male, dorsal view; 2 –

Figs 13–17. Male genitalia, ventral view. 13 – Didymocorypha lanceolata; 14 – Para-