Zopheromantis, Tindale, 1924

Milledge, G. A., 2005, Revision of the Genera Sphodropoda, Trachymantis and Zopheromantis (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae), Records of the Australian Museum 57, pp. 191-210 : 208

Zopheromantis

Zopheromantis Tindale, 1924: 550 . Type species Zopheromantis trimaculata Tindale , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Head approximately as high as wide, frontal shield without pronounced tooth at apex; preacetabular spine strong; ventral face of fore femur tuberculate, especially toward outer margin; male macropterous, female brachypterous, ventral face of costal area of tegmen red, mid and hind legs normal. Can be distinguished from Trachymantis by the absence of the apical tooth on the frontal shield and from Sphodropoda by the length of the mid and hind legs, the femur of the hind leg being distinctly longer than half the length of the abdomen.

Description. Body small to medium in size, male macropterous, female brachypterous. Head about as wide as high, not significantly compressed anteroposteriorly, apical margin gently arched; eyes rounded, not particularly prominent; frontal shield slightly wider than high, flat, with distinct ridge laterally and apically, forming blunt point at apex. Pronotum moderately elongate, rather slender, supracoxal expansion distinct, dorsally sparsely granulate in prozone, metazone almost smooth, margins finely denticulate in female largely entire in male, ventral surface with preacetabular spine prominent. Fore coxa as long as metazone of pronotum, with or without markings, a number denticles on anterior margin. Fore femur finely tuberculate on ventral surface, particularly toward outer margin; with four discoidal spines, relative length longest to shortest 3214; with four outer and 16–17 inner spines, claw groove situated at about a third the total distance from base. Tegmen with costal area opaque, red beneath; discoidal area entirely opaque to mostly hyaline. Hind wing with costal and discoidal area pigmented, anal area largely hyaline. Mid and hind legs normal, hind femur more than half the length of abdomen. Abdomen moderately elongate, cerci short, slender and cylindrical. Male genitalia with dpr bifurcate.