Parvacanthops Schwarz & Moulin, 2023

Moulin, Nicolas & Schwarz, Christian J., 2023, Two new genera of Acanthopidae (Mantodea) from the Amazon region, with description of a new species, Zoosystema 45 (5), pp. 137-161 : 151-152

Genus Parvacanthops Schwarz & Moulin , n. gen.

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TYPE SPECIES. — Acanthops parva Beier, 1942 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Habitus similar to that of Plesiacanthops and Miracanthops , i.e., brown, resembling a dry leaf, with a slender pronotum and without subapical lobes on tegmina. Male with convex vertex armed by a paramedian pair of strong double tubercles; juxtaocular bulges moderately developed, tuberculate; frontal shield with two projections on dorsal margin; pronotum long and relatively slender, prozona with three pairs of tubercles, metazona without strong tubercles posterior of supracoxal sulcus; metazona of males with parallel margins, expansion along its length very indistinct in the anterior half, more developed in the posterior half; dorsal margin of forefemora with a very indistinct basal lobe; walking leg femora with subtriangular genicular lobes in males; forewings with very wide costal field gradually tapering towards apex; alae longer than tegmina in males, with a triangular apex; abdominal tergites with small triangular lobes; abdominal sternites with three posterior lobes; cerci short, the last segment flattened and indented, with the outer lobe just slightly larger than the inner lobe; genitalia with long bl curved to the left and with subacute apex, a long, dorso-dextrally curved sdp, a simple afa, and loa consisting of two rather small, setose lobes. Spination formula F=4DS/16AvS/6PvS; T=18AvS/24-25PvS.

ETYMOLOGY. — Name consisting of the Latin prefix “parv-“ (small) and “-acanthops”, alluding to the small body size when compared to other members of the group.

DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil ( Fig. 21 ).

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FIG. 21. — Distribution map of Royacanthops soukana (Roy, 2002) n. comb., R. confusa Schwarz & Moulin, n. gen., n. sp. and Parvacanthops parva (Beier, 1942) n. comb. Source: http://www.gadm.org GADM database of Global Administrative Areas.