Phyllothelys mitratum Rehn, 1903

Svenson, Gavin J., 2014, The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, ZooKeys 433, pp. 31-75 : 58-59

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Phyllothelys mitratum Rehn, 1903

Phyllothelys mitratum : Rehn 1903: 715-716; Giglio-Tos 1927: 533; Beier 1935: 128; Ehrmann 2002: 280 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 290.

Type.

Holotype Female, immature (Fig. 18D; USNM ENT 00873989). The female specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1903) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing female specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Trong Lower Siam - Dr WL Abbott / Type - No. 7072 - USNM / Cat. no. - Phyllothelys - mitratum - TYPE Rehn. [Cat. No. 6972, U.S.N.M.; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 27.03; pronotum length 10.15; prozone length 2.29; head width 2.26; head vertex to clypeus 4.41; frons width 0.81; frons height 0.57; prothoracic femur length 6.40; mesothoracic femur length 2.56; mesothoracic tibia length 2.09; mesothoracic tarsus length 2.60; metathoracic femur length 3.38; metathoracic tibia length 3.26; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R15/L16; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R16/L15; posteroventral tibial spine count R14/L16.