Pseudoxyops perpulchra ( Westwood, 1889 )

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), Zootaxa 4824 (1), pp. 1-66 : 50

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4402151

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scientific name

Pseudoxyops perpulchra ( Westwood, 1889 )
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Pseudoxyops perpulchra ( Westwood, 1889) View in CoL

( Figs. 110–113 View FIGURES 110–113 , 129 View FIGURES 126–129 , 152 View FIGURES 148–153 )

Stagmatoptera perpulchra Westwood, 1889: 36 , pl. 11, fig. 8.

Type locality. Amazonas , Brazil ( Westwood 1889) .

Records. MUSM: 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 21.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 07.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.I.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) ; 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK) . NMB: ♂, 24.–30.IV.2011, leg. E. Diller (QR-NMB-Mant 1379, ex. ZSM) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.IX.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg & R. Trusch (QR-NMB-Mant 1376, ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 01.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (QR-NMB-Mant 1377, ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (QR-NMB-Mant 1378, ex. SMNK) . SMNK: ♂, 230 m, lux, 06.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg ( SMNK-Mant 12565); ♂, 230 m, lux, 01.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12778, 12789); ♂, 230 m, lux, 02.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12779); ♂, 230 m, lux, 03.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12842); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 13.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12843–12844, 12791); ♀, 230 m, lux, 14.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12872); ♂, 230 m, lux, 15.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12845); ♂, 230 m, lux, 19.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12846); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 20.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12847–12849); ♂, 230 m, lux, 21.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12850); ♂, 230 m, lux, 27.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg ( SMNK-Mant 12851); ♂, 230 m, 11.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12852); ♂, 230 m, 22.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12853) . ZSM: ♀, 230 m, leg. E.-G. Burmeister, E. Diller, T. Kothe & W. Schlang ( Figs. 112–113 View FIGURES 110–113 ); ♂, 19.IX.–02.X.2005, leg. E.-G. Burmeister, E. Diller, O. Gruler, M. Breitsameter & T. Kothe (genitalia preparation Stiewe Ps. p. 01); ♂, 02.–18.X.2009, leg. E.-G. Burmeister; ♂, X.2010, leg. E. Diller; ♂, 10.–28.V.2013, leg. E.-G. Burmeister (genitalia preparation Stiewe Ps. p. 03) . CSC: ♂, 230 m, lux, 11.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter ( Figs. 110–111 View FIGURES 110–113 ) (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 338, Fig. 129 View FIGURES 126–129 ) (ex. SMNK) ; ♂, 230 m, 18.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK) .

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru.

Remarks. A very common species at the study site.

Westwood, J. O. (1889) Revisio insectorum familiae mantidarum, speciebus novis aut minus cognitis descriptis et delineates. Gurney & Jackson, London, 54 + III pp., 14 pl.

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FIGURES 110–113. Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). 110. Male in dorsal view. 111. Same, ventral view. 112. Female in dorsal view. 113. Same, ventral view. Scale bar: 10 mm.

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FIGURES 126–129. Male genitalia of selected Vatinae in ventral view. 126. Parastagmatoptera sottilei Lombardo & Ippolito, 2015. 127. Parastagmatoptera vitreola (Stål, 1877). 128. Oxyopsis festae Giglio-Tos, 1914. 129. Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889). Not to scale.

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FIGURES 148–153. Life aspects of praying mantids at Panguana (continued). 148. Choeradodis stalii, male. Photo © Michael Falkenberg. 149. Stagmatoptera supplicaria (Burmeister, 1838), male. 150. Parastagmatoptera sottilei, female in copula with partially cannibalized male. Photos © Rolf Mörtter. 151. Oxyopsis festae, female. Photo © Dieter Schulten. 152. Pseudoxyops perpulchra, male. Photo © Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister. 153. Vates weyrauchi, male. Photo © Dieter Schulten.

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

NMB

Naturhistorishes Museum

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae

SubFamily

Vatinae

Genus

Pseudoxyops