Gonypetella ivoirensis Gillon & Roy, 1968

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), Zootaxa 5373 (1), pp. 1-64 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167454

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scientific name

Gonypetella ivoirensis Gillon & Roy, 1968
status

 

Gonypetella ivoirensis Gillon & Roy, 1968 View in CoL

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Gonypetella ivoirensis Gillon & Roy, 1968: 1082–1088 View in CoL , Figs. 18–21 View FIGURES 15–19 View FIGURES 20–23 .

Type locality. Lamto , Ivory Coast .

Distribution. Ivory Coast ( Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).

Records. CSC: ♀ + juv. ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. This species seems to be endemic to the Ivory Coast. A photographic record is also known from Taï NP. Nymphs and adult females are formidable ant mimics, mimicking various ant species during development, from Camponotus acvapimensis to Megaponera analis . At Lamto, the species is apparently trivoltine, with record maxima in March, July, and December (Roy 1975).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Chroicopteridae

Genus

Gonypetella

Loc

Gonypetella ivoirensis Gillon & Roy, 1968

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T. 2023
2023
Loc

Gonypetella ivoirensis

Gillon, Y. & Roy, R. 1968: 1088
1968
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