Stagmomantis domingensis

Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 501-525 : 515

Stagmomantis domingensis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

Taxonomic history. First described as Mantis domingensis by Palisot de Beauvois (1805); assigned to Stagmomantis by Terra (1995). Synonyms: Mantis (Polyspilota) albi-macula (given in Burmeister 1838), Mantis cubaensis (given in De Haan 1842), Isomantis domingensis (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927).

Distribution. Caribbean Islands (Ehrmann 2002).

Species description. Palisot de Beauvois (1805), brief, as Mantis ; Saussure and Zehntner (1894), brief; Giglio-Tos (1927), as Isomantis ; Lombardo and Perez-Gelabert (2004).

Features. Male features: forewings are hyaline and very narrow, with thin, opaque marginal strip; forewings can be rusty brown in coloration; hindwings are brown; pronotum with very finely serrated edges; abdominal tergites may have dark markings (Giglio-Tos 1927; Beier 1935). Female features: hindwings are yellow; base of hindwing is membranous, becoming tessellated with yellow spots towards the posterior edge; stigma is ivory in color and half-moon in shape, with a left margin that can have a brown mark; pronotum with serrated edges (Giglio-Tos 1927; Lombardo and Perez-Gelabert 2004).