Epitenodera gambiensis Beier, 1931

Nguyen, Eileen, Husemann, Martin & Ehrmann, Reinhard, 2024, An annotated type catalogue of praying mantises (Mantodea) in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH), European Journal of Taxonomy 964, pp. 1-79 : 35-38

Epitenodera gambiensis Beier, 1931

Figs 23 , 24a–c

Tenodera brevipennis Saussure, 1871: 296–297 .

Epitenodera gambiensis Beier, 1931: 8–9 .

Epitenodera brevipennis – Roy 2022: 77–79 (syn.).

Type material

Holotype (1 male)

SENEGAL • ♂ ( Fig. 23a–c ); “// Type // Afrika-Senegal / Eing. Nr. 63.1926. // Wüstengeb. nördl. / d. oberen Gambia // Epitenodera / gambiensis / det. [crossed out] Beier / Type! ♂ ”; ZMH 841122 .

Paratypes (2 males)

SENEGAL • 1 ♂ ( Fig. 23d–f ); “// Paratype // Epitenodera / gambiensis / det. [crossed out] Beier / Paratype ♂ // Wüstengeb. nördl. / d. oberen Gambia // Afrika-Senegal / Eing. Nr. 63.1926.”; ZMH 841108 • 1 ♂ ( Fig. 24a–c ); “// Paratypoid // Wüstengneb. nördl. / d. oberen Gambia // Afrika-Senegal / Eing. Nr. 63.1926. // Epitenodera / gambiensis / det. [crossed out] Beier / Paratype ♂ ”; ZMH 841109 .

Type locality

Senegal: desert area north of the upper Gambia River.

Current status

Synonym of Epitenodera brevipennis ( Saussure, 1871) .

Habitus

All specimens incomplete: abdomen is missing. The abdomens of all three specimens were already missing in the original description.

Figures

Fig. 23. Epitenodera gambiensis Beier, 1931. a–c. Holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841122). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–f. Paratype, ♂ (ZMH 841108). d. Labels. e. Dorsal view. f. Ventral view. Scale bars = 10 mm.

Fig. 24. a–c. Epitenodera gambiensis Beier, 1931, paratype, ♂ (ZMH 841109). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–f. Hierodula (Rhombodera) rollei Beier, 1935, holotype, ♀ (ZMH 841076). d. Labels. e. Dorsal view. f. Ventral view. Scale bars = 10 mm.