Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Amorphoscelidae

Amorphoscelis chinensis Tinkham, 1937

Amorphoscelis chinensis: Tinkham 1937: 484-485; Roy 1967a: 263; Kaltenbach 1983: 81; Wang and Jin 1995: 197; Yang and Wang 1999: 270; Ehrmann 2002: 61; Otte and Spearman 2005: 22; Roy 2010: 70.

Type.

Allotype Male (Fig. 2 B–F; USNM ENT 00873994).

Allotype labels.

nr. Tsao Tong - VII.12, '34 / Yunnan - China / DCGraham - coll / Amorphoscelis - chinensis - 1937 Tinkham - ALLOTYPE ♂ / genitalia - 543 - R.Roy / Allotype No. - 52046 - U.S.N.M.

Measurements.

Body length 21.88; forewing length 18.00; pronotum length 2.18; prozone length 0.88; pronotum width 2.64; pronotum narrow width 2.34; head width 4.79; head vertex to clypeus 1.86; frons width 2.04; frons height 0.39; prothoracic femur length 3.63; mesothoracic femur length 5.22; mesothoracic tibia length 3.55; mesothoracic tarsus length 4.39; metathoracic femur length 5.38; metathoracic tibia length 5.79; metathoracic tarsus length 6.41; discoidal femoral spines R1/L1; anteroventral femoral spine count R0/L0; posteroventral femoral spine count R0/L0; anteroventral tibial spine count R0/L0; posteroventral tibial spine count R0/L0.