Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915

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 : 11-12

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Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915
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Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915 View in CoL

Figs. 15–19 View FIGURES 15–19 , 22–23 View FIGURES 20–23

Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915: 177 View in CoL .

= Ligaria senegalensis Roy, 1962: 94–97 View in CoL , Figs 2–4 View FIGURES 2–4 , pl. 1, Fig. a.

Type localities. (P. m.) Cameroon; (L. s.) Niokolo-Koba, Senegal.

Distribution. Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Cameroon ( Giglio-Tos 1915c; Gillon & Roy 1968; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a, 1967, 1969, 1970b, 1971b, 1975, 1978; Roy & Leston 1975).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 324); ♀, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–01.VI.2019, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. Terricolous taxon widely distributed across the Sudan savanna belt. Females deposit the oothecae underground with the help of a digging device ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 20–23 ) evolved at the tips of the gonapophyses VIII ( Chroicoptera type, Wieland 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Chroicopteridae

Genus

Parentella

Loc

Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T. 2023
2023
Loc

Ligaria senegalensis

Roy 1962: 94 - 97
1962
Loc

Parentella major

Giglio-Tos 1915: 177
1915
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