Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer, 2015

Liu, Qin-Peng, Liu, Zi-Jun, Wang, Guo-Li & Yin, Zi-Xu, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the praying mantis subfamily Hierodulinae of China (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 4951 (3), pp. 401-433 : 417

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Genus Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer, 2015 View in CoL

Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer, 2015: 238 View in CoL .

Type species: Hierodula butleri Wood-Mason, 1878: 580 .

Diagnosis. Large and very robust; pronotum short, lateral expansion convex laterally, along its entire length and not constricted in the middle; metazona about two times as long as prozona; pcpl transverse; L4A with a slender sdpl; afa simplified, with aafa and pafa fully fused.

Diversity and distribution. Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer, 2015 was originally established to include Rhombodera fusca Lombardo, 1992 , Rhombodera butleri Wood-Mason, 1878 , and Rhombodera woodmasoni Wer- ner, 1937. Schwarz et al. (2018a) later assigned Rhombodera tectiformis Saussure, 1870 to Rhombomantis . Ehrmann & Borer, 2015 recognized Hierodula brachynota Wang & Dong, 1993 from China as a junior synonym of Rhombomantis fusca . Wang et al. (2021) proposed a new species in this genus from Indochina, bringing the total number of species in Rhombomantis to five. This genus has been recorded in China, Nepal, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand.