Stagmomantis venusta Saussure and Zehntner, 1894

Maxwell, Michael R., 2014, A synoptic review of the genus Stagmomantis (Mantodea: Mantidae), Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 501-525 : 519

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6126033

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Stagmomantis venusta Saussure and Zehntner, 1894
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Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis venusta by Saussure and Zehntner (1894). Synonym: Uromantis (Stagmomantis) venusta (given in Giglio-Tos 1917, 1927). Callimantis floridana (Scudder 1896) is given as a synonym by Terra (1995) and Otte and Spearman (2005).

Distribution. Central America (Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo et al. 2007).

Species description. Saussure and Zehntner (1894); Giglio-Tos (1927), as Uromantis .

Features. Male features: forewings are hyaline, with opaque, green marginal strip; hindwings have green anterior margin and gray marks along the posterior edge; cross-veins of the discoidal field of the forewings exhibit a sigmoidal flexure; inner surface of anterior femora has black markings (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Rehn and Hebard 1909; Giglio-Tos 1927; Rehn 1935b). Female features: hindwings are opaque yellow in anterior portion and at base, with the remainder being tessellated with yellow spots; stigma is not differentiated in color from the forewing (Latin concolore); pronotum is slender (Saussure and Zehntner 1894; Giglio-Tos 1927).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae

Genus

Stagmomantis

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