Perlamantis allibertii Guerin-Meneville , 1843

Marabuto, Eduardo, Rodrigues, Ivo & Henriques, Sergio S, 2014, Sphodromantisviridis (Forskal, 1775): New for Portugal and new records of the rare and small mantids Apteromantisaptera (Fuente, 1894) and Perlamantisallibertii Guerin-Meneville, 1843 in the country (Mantodea: Mantidae and Amorphoscelidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1037-1037 : 1037

Perlamantis allibertii Guerin-Meneville, 1843

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: Seabra (1937, 1939); Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Alto Alentejo; county: Évora; locality: UTM: 29SNC96 ; verbatimLocality: Herdade da Mitra, Évora; Event: eventDate: 08-1938

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: Grosso-Silva & Soares-Vieira (2004); individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Beira Alta; county: Guarda; locality: UTM: 29TPF72 ; verbatimLocality: Castelo Rodrigo; Event: eventDate: 20-08-1997

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sérgio Henriques; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Trás-os-Montes; county: Bragança; municipality: Miranda do Douro; locality: UTM: 29TQF28 ; verbatimLocality: Vila Chã de Braciosa; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTZPE0038 / PTCON0022; verbatimLatitude: 41° 25.20N; verbatimLongitude: 6° 20.22W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: ad hoc observation; eventDate: 12-09-2006; eventRemarks: under stone

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Valter Jacinto; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Castro Marim; locality: UTM: 29SPB22 ; verbatimLocality: Corte do Gago; verbatimLatitude: 37° 17.39N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 32.76W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: porch light; eventDate: 26-06-2009

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Jorge Almeida, Pedro Pires, Paulo Rodrigues; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Beira Baixa; county: Castelo Branco; municipality: Almaceda; locality: UTM: 29TPE12 ; verbatimLocality: Almaceda; verbatimLatitude: 40° 00.65N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 39.65W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 21-08-2010

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Valter Jacinto; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Castro Marim; locality: UTM: 29SPB22 ; verbatimLocality: Corte do Gago; verbatimLatitude: 37° 17.39N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 32.76W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: porch light; eventDate: 4-09-2010

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Fernando Romão; individualCount: 5; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Beira Alta; county: Guarda; municipality: Figueira Castelo Rodrigo; locality: UTM: 29TPF63 ; verbatimLocality: Faia Brava; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTZPE0039; verbatimLatitude: 40° 57.17N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 04.15W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 11-09-2010

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Samuel Infante; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Beira Baixa; county: Castelo Branco; municipality: Monforte da Beira; locality: UTM: 29SPD49 ; verbatimLocality: Monte Barata; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTZPE0042; verbatimLatitude: 39° 42.08N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 18.90W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 13-09-2010

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Nélson Fonseca; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Silves; locality: UTM: 29SNB61 ; verbatimLocality: Algoz; verbatimLatitude: 37° 09.66N; verbatimLongitude: 8° 18.45W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 6-08-2012

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Eduardo Marabuto, Nélson Fonseca; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Loulé; locality: UTM: 29SNB81 ; verbatimLocality: Fonte de Benémola; locationRemarks: Natura 2000: PTCON0049; verbatimLatitude: 37° 12.58N; verbatimLongitude: 8° 00.60W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 7-08-2012

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Valter Jacinto; Location: country: Portugal; stateProvince: Algarve; county: Faro; municipality: Castro Marim; locality: UTM: 29SPB22 ; verbatimLocality: Corte do Gago; verbatimLatitude: 37° 17.39N; verbatimLongitude: 7° 32.76W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees decimal minutes; Event: samplingProtocol: porch light; eventDate: 6-10-2012

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Even though this species has a wide distribution, its elusive nocturnal habits (e.g. Bolívar 1914) reduce its chances to be seen. Therefore, its poorly known biology coupled with habitat loss resulting from conversion to intensive agriculture of scrubland and Mediterranean forest types has led Battiston et al. (2010) to attribute a "Potential risk" status to this species.

Distribution

This sole representative of the family Amorphoscelidae in Europe, this is an Atlanto-Mediterranean species generally distributed through the Iberian Peninsula, southern France and North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia ( Battiston et al. 2010). In Spain, records are scattered although widespread ( Correas 2009) and information on its biological requirements is scarce. Until now, solely known in Portugal from specimens collected in the thirties ( Seabra 1937) and more recently, in 1997 ( Grosso-Silva and Soares-Vieira 2004).