Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), Zootaxa 5373 (1), pp. 1-64 : 18-19

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scientific name	Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916
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Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916 View in CoL

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Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916: 30 View in CoL .

Type locality. Bismarckburg , Togo.

Distribution. Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Cameroon, Sudan ( Beier 1968; Giglio-Tos 1916; Prost & Roy 1986; Werner 1912).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 490). SMNK: ♁, Comoé NP, XI.1994, S. Eggers leg. (SMNK-Mant. 04798) .

Remarks. Ischnomantis is mainly a Sahelian genus. I. werneri is distinguished from the more northerly I. gigas ( Saussure 1870) by smaller body size and the lack of an “eye-spot” on the alae. New Ivorian record.