Stagmomantis vicina Saussure, 1870

Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 501-525 : 519

Stagmomantis vicina Saussure, 1870

Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis vicina by Saussure (1870). Synonyms: Oromantis vicina (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927), Uromantis centralis (given in Hebard 1923b), Uromantis similis (given in Hebard 1923b). Callimantis floridana (Scudder 1896) given as a synonym by Ehrmann (2002).

Distribution. USA and Mexico through Central America (Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo et al. 2007).

Species description. Saussure (1870), brief; Saussure and Zehntner (1894), brief; Giglio-Tos (1927), as Oromantis ; Rehn (1935b), brief.

Features. S. vicina is relatively short for this genus (Table 2). Male features: wings do not reach the end of the abdomen; forewings are completely hyaline and membranous, with a transparent marginal strip (hyaline or subhyaline); hindwings have dark spots; edge of the pronotum is smooth (Saussure 1870; Giglio-Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b). Female features: forewings are relatively short; hindwings are anteriorly yellow and posteriorly dark; the apices of the hindwings, when closed, are abruptly truncate; stigma is not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin concolore) (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Rehn 1935b). The inner surface of the anterior femora may have one or two black spots; green individuals tend to lack this marking (Rehn 1935b).