Ameles malaccana 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 : 36-37

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Ameles malaccana Rehn, 1903

Ameles malaccana : Rehn 1903: 703-704.

Bimantis malaccana : Giglio-Tos 1915: 157; Giglio-Tos 1927: 177; Beier 1935: 30; Ehrmann 2002: 77 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 147.

Type.

Holotype Female (Fig. 2A; USNM ENT 00873051). 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 / right medial leg. / Ameles - malaccana - TYPE Rehn. / Type - No. 7069 - U.S.N.M. [Cat. No. 6955 USNM; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 22.41; forewing length 4.62; hindwing length 2.54; pronotum length 6.08; prozone length 2.57; pronotum width 3.23; pronotum narrow width 2.21; head width 4.62; head vertex to clypeus 1.69; frons width 1.39; frons height 0.93; prothoracic femur length 6.73; mesothoracic femur length 5.90; mesothoracic tibia length 4.71; mesothoracic tarsus length 3.29; anteroventral femoral spine count R13; posteroventral femoral spine count R4; anteroventral tibial spine count R9; posteroventral tibial spine count R10.