Macromusonia major ( Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 )

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 : 13

Macromusonia major ( Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)

( Figs. 21–22 , 132–133 )

Musonia major Saussure & Zehntner, 1894: 165 , pl. 10, figs 17–19.

Type locality. South America ( Saussure & Zehntner 1894) .

Records. SMNK: ♂, 220 m, lux, 21.IX.–03.X.2004, leg. J. & R. Oehlke (SMNK-Mant 11244, Fig. 21 ) ; ♀, 220 m, 21.IX.–03.X.2004, leg. J. & R. Oehlke (SMNK-Mant 11245); ♀, 220 m, 18.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter, ( SMNK-Mant 12787, Fig. 22 ) . ZSM: ♀, 260 m, 02.–19.X.2009, leg. E. Diller ; ♂ ♀, 260 m, X.2010, leg. E. Diller.

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Peru, Venezuela.

Remarks. Contrary to the males (compare fig. 3h in Schwarz & Roy (2019) with Fig. 31 ), the females of this and the following species are difficult to distinguish, as their body and prothorax lengths somewhat overlap.

Figures

FIGURES 21–22. Macromusonia major (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894). 21. Male in dorsal view. 22. Female in dorsal view. Scale bar: 10 mm.

FIGURES 130–135. Life aspects of praying mantids at Panguana. 130. Macromusonia conspersa, male. 131. Macromusonia conspersa, female. 132. Macromusonia major, subadult male. 133. Macromusonia major, female. 134. Liturgusa maya, female. 135. Liturgusa nubeculosa, subadult. Photos © Dieter Schulten.

FIGURES 29–32. Male genitalia of selected Thespidae in ventral view. 29–30. Pseudomiopteryx cf. decipiens Giglio-Tos, 1915. 31. Macromusonia conspersa (Saussure, 1870). 32. Thesprotiella peruana Beier, 1935. Not to scale.