Gonypeta benguelae Saussure, 1869

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 : 4-6

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scientific name	Gonypeta benguelae Saussure, 1869
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Fig. 2f–h View Fig

Gonypeta benguelae Saussure, 1869: 64 .

Ligentella benguelae – Kaltenbach 1996: 257–259.

Type material

Holotype (1 female)

ANGOLA • ♀ ( Fig. 2f–h View Fig ); “// Holotype // O 277 ♀ / Benguela // Z. M. H. / Hamburg // Benguelae / Sss. // Parentella ♀ / benguelae Sauss. / det. Beier ”; ZMH 833033 View Materials .

Type locality

West Africa, Benguela [ Angola].

Current status

Valid species.

Habitus

Incomplete: last pair of legs is missing.

Remarks

In the original publication Saussure quotes “Africa occidentalis” [West Africa] as type locality. However in a later publication ( Saussure 1871), he gives a more detailed description of this type specimen and quotes Benguela as more specific type locality.

References

Kaltenbach A. P. 1996. Unterlagen fur eine Monographie der Mantodea des sudlichen Afrika: 1. Artenbestand, geographische Verbreitung und Ausbreitungsgrenzen (Insecta: Mantodea). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 98 (B): 193 - 346.

Saussure H. de 1869. Essai d'un systeme des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 3 (2): 49 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.5169 / seals- 400254

Saussure H. de 1871. Melanges Orthopterologiques IV. Mantides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve 3 (Supplement) 21: 1 - 214, 239 - 336. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 59878

Werner F. 1923. Mantodea und Phasmodea. In: Michaelsen W. (ed.) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Land- und Susswasserfauna Deutsch-Sudwestafrikas. Ergebnisse der Hamburger deutsch-sudwestafrikanischen Studienreise 1911. Band II, Lieferung 2: 105 - 132. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg.

Figures

Fig. 2. a–e. Amorphoscelis austrogermanica Werner, 1923, holotype, ♂ (ZMH 841075). a. Labels. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view. d–e. Genitalia. f–h. Gonypeta benguelae Saussure, 1869, holotype, ♀ (ZMH 833033). f. Labels. g. Dorsal view. h. Ventral view. White scale bars = 10 mm; black scale bar = 0.50 mm.