Pseudoxyops perpulchra ( Westwood, 1889 )

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), Zootaxa 4824 (1), pp. 1-66 : 50

Pseudoxyops perpulchra ( Westwood, 1889)

( Figs. 110–113 , 129 , 152 )

Stagmatoptera perpulchra Westwood, 1889: 36 , pl. 11, fig. 8.

Type locality. Amazonas , Brazil ( Westwood 1889) .

Records. MUSM: 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 21.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 07.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.I.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) . NMB: ♂, 24.–30.IV.2011, leg. E. Diller (QR-NMB-Mant 1379, ex. ZSM) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.IX.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg & R. Trusch (QR-NMB-Mant 1376, ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 01.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (QR-NMB-Mant 1377, ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (QR-NMB-Mant 1378, ex. SMNK) . SMNK: ♂, 230 m, lux, 06.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg ( SMNK-Mant 12565); ♂, 230 m, lux, 01.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12778, 12789); ♂, 230 m, lux, 02.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12779); ♂, 230 m, lux, 03.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12842); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 13.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12843–12844, 12791); ♀, 230 m, lux, 14.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12872); ♂, 230 m, lux, 15.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12845); ♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12846); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 20.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12847–12849); ♂, 230 m, lux, 21.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12850); ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg ( SMNK-Mant 12851); ♂, 230 m, 11.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12852); ♂, 230 m, 22.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12853) . ZSM: ♀, 230 m, leg. E.-G. Burmeister, E. Diller, T. Kothe & W. Schlang ( Figs. 112–113 ); ♂, 19.IX.–02.X.2005, leg. E.-G. Burmeister, E. Diller, O. Gruler, M. Breitsameter & T. Kothe (genitalia preparation Stiewe Ps. p. 01); ♂, 02.–18.X.2009, leg. E.-G. Burmeister; ♂, X.2010, leg. E. Diller; ♂, 10.–28.V.2013, leg. E.-G. Burmeister (genitalia preparation Stiewe Ps. p. 03) . CSC: ♂, 230 m, lux, 11.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter ( Figs. 110–111 ) (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 338, Fig. 129 ) (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, 18.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK) .

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru.

Remarks. A very common species at the study site.

Figures

FIGURES 110–113. Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). 110. Male in dorsal view. 111. Same, ventral view. 112. Female in dorsal view. 113. Same, ventral view. Scale bar: 10 mm.

FIGURES 126–129. Male genitalia of selected Vatinae in ventral view. 126. Parastagmatoptera sottilei Lombardo & Ippolito, 2015. 127. Parastagmatoptera vitreola (Stål, 1877). 128. Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914. 129. Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). Not to scale.

FIGURES 148–153. Life aspects of praying mantids at Panguana (continued). 148. Choeradodis stalii, male. Photo © Michael Falkenberg. 149. Stagmatoptera supplicaria (Burmeister, 1838), male. 150. Parastagmatoptera sottilei, female in copula with partially cannibalized male. Photos © Rolf Mörtter. 151. Oxyopsis festae, female. Photo © Dieter Schulten. 152. Pseudoxyops perpulchra, male. Photo © Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister. 153. Vates weyrauchi, male. Photo © Dieter Schulten.