Stagmomantis floridensis Davis, 1919

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

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125999

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scientific name

Stagmomantis floridensis Davis, 1919
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Taxonomic history. Described as Stagmomantis floridensis by Davis (1919).

Distribution. Appears to be mainly restricted to Florida in USA (Davis 1919; Ehrmann 2002; Agudelo et al. 2007).

Species description. Davis (1919); Blatchley (1920), brief; Helfer (1987), brief.

Features. S. floridensis is rather elongate and slender. Male features: forewings are hyaline; body coloration is commonly green (Davis 1919; Blatchley 1920). Female features: forewings are shorter than the pronotum, covering roughly half of the abdomen; hindwings are opaque yellow in anterior and basal regions, remainder being tessellated with yellow spots; stigma is pale, can be inconspicuous; abdomen is cylindrical, being of nearly equal width along its length; pronotum is slender (Davis 1919; Blatchley 1920; Helfer 1987).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae

Genus

Stagmomantis

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