Stagmomantis heterogamia Saussure and Zehntner, 1894

Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 501-525 : 516

Stagmomantis heterogamia Saussure and Zehntner, 1894

Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis heterogamia by Saussure and Zehntner (1894). Synonym: Uromantis (Stagmomantis) heterogamia (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927).

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

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

Features. Male features: forewings with opaque, green marginal strip; cross-veins of discoidal field of the tegmina are transverse, tending to lie at right angles to main veins; hindwings with gray spots on distal tips (Giglio- Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b; Jantsch 1985). Female features: forewings are short, covering the first two abdominal segments; hindwings are opaque yellow at base, posterior portion is tessellated with yellow spots; elongate body; stigma is not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin concolore); pronotum edge is delicately denticulated (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b; Jantsch 1985).