Mantoida cf. argentinae La Greca & Lombardo, 1990

Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), Zootaxa 4824 (1), pp. 1-66 : 9

Mantoida cf. argentinae La Greca & Lombardo, 1990

( Figs. 13–14 )

Type locality. Puni Tavo , Argentina ( La Greca & Lombardo 1990) .

Records. ZSM: ♂, 19.IX.–02.X.2005, leg. E. Diller (genitalia preparation Stiewe No. Ma. 02, Fig. 14 ) .

Distribution. Argentina, Peru.

Remarks. While external and genital morphology of the specimen correspond very well to the original description, this Peruvian record is far from the type location, and from a different biome. Additional material is required to clarify the status of this taxon (A. Agudelo & J. Rivera, pers. com.). New for Peru.

Figures

FIGURES 11–14. Genus Mantoida. 11. Mantoida brunneriana (Saussure, 1871), male in dorsal view. Scale bar: 10 mm. 12. M. brunneriana, genitalia; a & b. variability of afa. Scale bar: 1 mm. 13. Mantoida cf. argentinae La Greca & Lombardo, 1990 male in dorsal view. 14. M. cf. argentinae, genitalia.