Stagmomantis marginata

Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 501-525 : 517

Stagmomantis marginata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

Taxonomic history. First described as Mantis marginata by Palisot de Beauvois (1805); assigned to Stagmomantis by Otte and Spearman (2005) and Agudelo et al. (2007).

Distribution. Haiti (Otte and Spearman 2005; Agudelo et al. 2007).

Species description. Palisot de Beauvois (1805), brief.

Features. Uncertainty surrounds the status of this species. It is recognized as a separate species by Otte and Spearman (2005) and Agudelo et al. (2007), but not by Terra (1995) and Ehrmann (2002). Palisot de Beauvois (1805) provides a brief species description, as Mantis marginata . In brown specimens, the forewings are variegated with brown and gray, with a green margin; the anterior femora have a black spot at the base; the pronotum has smooth edges.