Angela armata ( De Haan, 1842 )

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 : 18

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Angela armata ( De Haan, 1842)

( Figs. 35–36 View FIGURES 35–38 )

Mantis (Thespis) armata De Haan, 1842: 95 .

= Angela fulgida Saussure, 1872: 61 .

Type locality. ( A. fulgida ) Cayenne , French Guiana ( Saussure, 1872) .

Records. ZSM: ♀, forest station, 22.IX.–10.X.2017, leg. E.-G. Burmeister ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 35–38 ) .

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru.

Remarks. The females of this species are very similar to those of A. guianensis Rehn, 1906 ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 35–38 ). We tentatively assigned this specimen to A. armata because it corresponds to the females of two pairs raised from oothecae obtained from a native Peruvian collector in the mid-2000s (SMNK, CSC). The male described by Lombardo & Agabiti (2001) was erroneously connected with A. armata . As pointed out by Beier (1942, misspelled as Angela “ ornata ”) and confirmed by our specimens, the male ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 35–38 ) is blackish, rather small for the genus, with denticulated pronotal margins, slightly convex metazona margins, and completely dark smoky hindwings except for the typical brownish apical mark in the discoidal field. Measurements (in mm, see also Beier 1942): body 69.3, head width 4.3, pronotum length 23.1, pronotum width 2.2, prozona 4.3, metazona 18.8, forecoxa 11.1, forefemur 14.0, foretibia 5.3, tegmen length 26.6, tegmen width 3.6, ala length 32,8, ala width 14.1. The cerci of the studied specimen are regenerated, but according to Beier (1942) they are broad and with truncated apex.

References

Beier, M. (1942) Neue und seltene Mantodeen aus deutschen Museen. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 52, 126 - 154.

De Haan, W. (1842) Bijdragen tot de Kennis der Orthoptera Zoologie. Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche Bezittingen door de Leden der Natuurkundige commisie in Indie et andere Schrijvers, 6, 45 - 248, 13 pl.

Lombardo, F. & Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 1082 - 6467 (2001) 010 [0089: TMFEWS] 2.0. CO; 2

Rehn, J. A. G. (1906) Records and descriptions of non-saltatorial Orthoptera from British Guiana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 58, 262 - 278.

Saussure, H. de (1872) Melanges orthopterologiques. IVieme Fascicule. Mantides et Blattides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, 23 (2), 1 - 164, 3 pl.

Figures

FIGURES 35–38. Genus Angela. 35. Angela armata (De Haan, 1842), male from Pozuzo in dorsal view. 36. A. armata, female in dorsal view. 36. A. guianensis Rehn, 1906, male in dorsal view. 37. A. guianensis, female from Tingo Maria in dorsal view. Scale bar: 10 mm.