Raptophasma Zompro, 2001

Perkovsky, Evgeny E. & Vasilenko, Dmitry V., 2024, New and little-known Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from European amber, Zootaxa 5446 (4), pp. 553-563 : 554

Genus Raptophasma Zompro, 2001

Type species: Raptophasma kerneggeri Zompro, 2001 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. This genus characterized by profemora without strong spine-like bristles ventrally and by thoracic and abdominal tergites with numerous short hair-like setae, while the spine-like bristles absent. By these features Raptophasma is easy recognizable from Adicophasma . From Jurassic Juramantophasma this genus differs by smaller size, proportions of femora, anterior margin of procoxae with one strong spine, and triangular female cerci (in J. sinicum Huang, Nel, Zompro & Waller, 2008 , nom. corrected, body length 34 mm, profemora 2.5 times as long as wide, anterior margin of coxae with a dense row of setae, and female cerci hooked).

Composition. There are two species from Baltic amber one of which is described below.

Remarks. Recent genera of Mantophasmatodea differ by armature of femur, by chaetotaxy of thorax and abdomen, by shape of male and female terminalia, as well as by size and coloration of body and appendages ( Klass et al., 2003; Wipfler et al., 2018). These features seem to be important for separating extinct genera also.