Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877

Kamila, A. P. & Sureshan, P. M., 2024, Taxonomic Review of the Genus Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 (Mantodea: Eremiaphilidae) with description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 5512 (1), pp. 53-66 : 54-55

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13861804

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877
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Genus Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 View in CoL

Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha) : Wood-Mason, 1877: 221.

Pyrgocotis View in CoL : Stål, 1877: 14; Westwood, 1889: 3; Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893: 59; Kirby, 1904: 218; Giglio-Tos 1921: 31.

Didymocorypha View in CoL : Wood-Mason, 1882: 24; Westwood, 1889: 3; Wood-Mason, 1889: 34; Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893: 59; Bolivar, 1897: 303; Kirby, 1904: 218; Giglio-Tos, 1919: 57; Giglio-Tos, 1921: 31; Giglio-Tos, 1927: 116; Beier, 1935: 5; Beier, 1964: 942; Beier, 1968: 8; Mukherjee et al., 1995: 235; Ehrmann, 2002: 122; Otte & Spearman, 2005: 328; Ghate et al., 2012: 442; Mukherjee et al., 2014: 15; Ehrmann & Borer, 2015: 231; Patel et al., 2016: 20259; Schwarz & Roy, 2019: 115, 143; Wu & Liu, 2020: 53 View Cited Treatment ; Kamila & Sureshan, 2022: 17; Kamila & Sureshan, 2023: 67.

Type species: Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha) ensifera Wood-Mason, 1877 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: Small, slender, dry grass-like yellowish brown body. Females larger than males. Compound eyes oblong. Head elongated like a lance due to prolongation of the juxta-ocular lobes of vertex with a median suture along the entire length. Lower frons trapezoid. Pronotum slender, with weak supra-coxal dilation and almost parallel lateral margins. Fore femur with 4 posteroventral and 4 discoidal spines. Fore tibia with 5‒6 posteroventral spines. Meso- and metathoracic legs long, simple, with a genicular spine. Males mesopterous or apterous, females apterous. If winged, then both wings hyaline.

Distribution: India, China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand ( Fig. 34 View FIGURE 34 ).

Species currently included:

1. D. lanceolata ( Fabricius, 1798)

2. D. libaii Wu & Liu, 2020

3. D. wayanadensis Kamila & Sureshan sp. nov.

Key to Didymocorypha species

1. Cerci short, rectangular-shaped, little longer than wide ( Figs. 7 View FIGURES 1‒8 , 15, 16 View FIGURES 9‒16 , 28 View FIGURES 25‒32 ).................... D. wayanadensis sp. nov.

- Cerci very long, lance-shaped, more than 8 times longer than wide ( Figs. 23 View FIGURES 17‒24 , 27 View FIGURES 25‒32 )................................... 2

2. Male apterous; ocelli of male indistinct; body densely covered with black patches and spots.................... D. libaii View in CoL

- Male mesopterous ( Fig. 18b View FIGURES 17‒24 ); ocelli of male distinct ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 17‒24 ); body sometimes with few black spots......... D. lanceolata

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Eremiaphilidae

Loc

Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877

Kamila, A. P. & Sureshan, P. M. 2024
2024
Loc

Didymocorypha

Kamila, A. P. & Sureshan, P. M. 2023: 67
Kamila, A. P. & Sureshan, P. M. 2022: 17
Wu, C. & Liu, C. X. 2020: 53
Schwarz, C. J. & Roy, R. 2019: 115
Patel, S. & Singh, G. & Singh, R. 2016: 20259
Ehrmann, R. & Borer, M. 2015: 231
Mukherjee, T. K. & Ehrmann, R. & Chatterjee, P. 2014: 15
Ghate, H. V. & Jadhav, S. S. & Sharma, R. M. 2012: 442
Otte, D. & Spearman, L. 2005: 328
Ehrmann, R. 2002: 122
Mukherjee, T. K. & Hazra, A. K. & Ghosh, A. K. 1995: 235
Beier, M. 1968: 8
Beier, M. 1964: 942
Beier, M. 1935: 5
Giglio-Tos, E. 1927: 116
Giglio-Tos, E. 1921: 31
Giglio-Tos, E. 1919: 57
Kirby, W. F. 1904: 218
Bolivar, I. 1897: 303
Brunner de Wattenwyl, K. 1893: 59
Westwood, J. O. 1889: 3
Wood-Mason, J. 1889: 34
Wood-Mason, J. 1882: 24
1882
Loc

Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha)

Wood-Mason, J. 1877: 221
1877
Loc

Pyrgocotis

Giglio-Tos, E. 1921: 31
Kirby, W. F. 1904: 218
Brunner de Wattenwyl, K. 1893: 59
Westwood, J. O. 1889: 3
Stal, C. 1877: 14
1877
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