Stagmatoptera praedicatoria

Pfäuti, Patrice & Hollier, John, 2012, Additions to the catalogue of mantid type material deposited in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (Insecta: Mantodea), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 261-267 : 265

praedicatoria Saussure, 1870 [Stagmatoptera] .

Three syntypes (box 41). The first has five handwritten labels: "609-56 Alto Amazon Brésil Mr. Brunner d. W.", "21" (off-white paper), "Alto Amazon." (off-white paper), "Stagmat. Praedicato. Sauss." (green paper) and " Stagmatoptera sp. nov. Ht Amazon. Bolivar.". The second has three handwritten labels: "609-56 Alto Amazon Brésil Mr. Brunner d. W.", "Stagmat. praedicat. Sauss." (green paper) and "Alto Amazon Stagmatoptera spec. nov. ach. à M Brunner" (green paper). The third has four handwritten labels: "609-56 Manaos Brésil Mr. Brunner d. W.", "Stagmat. praedicator Sauss." (green paper), "praedicatoria" (off-white paper) and " Stagmatoptera Praecaria Manaos Amazon " (off-white paper).

Note: two variant spellings were used by Saussure in the original description, the key to species has praedicatoria and the description proper predicatoria (the former being that currently accepted).