Statilia maculata ( Thunberg, 1784 )

Srinivasan, G., Surendar, C., Chatterjee, Parbati & Mukherjee, Tushar Kanti, 2017, Additional records of Mantodea and Phasmida from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 264-264 : 264-

6. Statilia maculata ( Thunberg, 1784) (Figure 6, male).

1784. Mantis maculata Thunberg, Novae Insectorum Species, 3: 61.

2014. Statilia maculata : Mukherjee, et al., PRIAMUS, No. 30: 38.

Description: Body clay coloured with scattered black and blackish spots. Vertex at summit with blackish patch; eyes dirty white with blackish line, their ventral half darker. Frontal sclerite pale blackish with a pair of round white spots. Similar paired spots present on posterior ½ of mesosternum. Pronotum dirty white with scattered with scattered blackish spots, with good supracoxal widening, distinctly carinated; metazona hardly constricted laterally in middle; antero-ventral area of metazona near coxal joint with black patch. Abdomen blackish and black spotted. In fore leg, coxa with 5-6 whitish triangular spines; claw groove yellow, a little in front of middle, a black patch at the posterior of this groove; a black line runs ventral to this groove; all spines black at tips, internal spines with a black line along bases; external spines (4) black at bases; tibia with 7 external and 10 internal spines. The middle and hinds legs are simple. Wings: Both extend the end of abdomen. In fore wing, costal area opaque, pale straw coloured, costal margin blackish; stigma pale straw coloured; discoidal and anal areas transparent; discoidal area with scattered scattered black patches; long veins pale straw coloured, cross veins with black spots at either ends; anal area and its veins colourless. In hind wing, costal and discoidal areas with colourless veins, cells near tip of discoidal area smoky;; long veins of anal pale area with blackish bands and cells here are smoky. Length 42.0, fore wing 30.0, hind wing 27.0.

Material examined: 1 male, 03.i.2014, 12º30’14.7 ” N, 92º55’30.2 ” E, 15.0 m, Rangat, Middle Andaman, 210 km from Port Blair , at light, coll. G. Srinivasan. Sureshan et al. (2004) reported a male from South Andamans .

Distribution: India: Andaman Island, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Kerala, Orissa, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Annam; Borneo; China; Japan; Java; Labuan; Myanmar; Malayasia; Maluku Islands; Nepal; New Guinea; Palawan; Sri Lanka; Sumatra.