Thesprotia caribea Rehn & Hebard, 1938

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 : 66-67

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Thespidae

Thesprotia caribea Rehn & Hebard, 1938

Thesprotia caribea : Rehn and Hebard 1938: 36-38; Terra 1995: 50; Ehrmann 2002: 355 [Holotype and Allotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 378; Agudelo et al. 2007: 118.

Types.

Holotype Female (Fig. 17 D–F; USNM ENT 00873967). Allotype Male (Fig. 18 A–C; USNM ENT 00873968). The female specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn and Hebard (1938) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing female specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Antigua. W.I. - June-1918 - D. Stoner / Thesprotia - caribea R+H - TYPE / Type - No. 53226 - U.S.N.M.

Allotype labels.

Antigua. W.I. - June-1918 - D. Stoner / Thesprotia - caribea - R+H - PARATYPE - Allotype ♂

Measurements.

Holotype female. Body length 38.61; pronotum length 12.31; prozone length 3.00; pronotum width 1.71; pronotum narrow width 1.20; head width 2.66; head vertex to clypeus 1.35; frons width 0.86; frons height 0.30; prothoracic femur length 7.96; mesothoracic femur length 8.08; mesothoracic tibia length 7.92; mesothoracic tarsus length 3.72; metathoracic femur length 8.78; metathoracic tibia length 10.17; metathoracic tarsus length 4.59; discoidal femoral spines R3/L3; anteroventral femoral spine count R6/L6; posteroventral femoral spine count R1/L1; anteroventral tibial spine count R1/L1; posteroventral tibial spine count R1/L1.

Allotype male. Body length 32.33; forewing length 17.58; hindwing length 17.84; pronotum length 10.33; prozone length 2.74; pronotum width 1.34; pronotum narrow width 1.02; head width 2.41; head vertex to clypeus 1.23; frons width 0.80; frons height 0.26; prothoracic femur length 7.40; mesothoracic femur length 9.22; mesothoracic tibia length 9.03; mesothoracic tarsus length 4.94; discoidal femoral spines R3/L3; anteroventral femoral spine count R5/L6; posteroventral femoral spine count R1/L1; anteroventral tibial spine count R1/L1; posteroventral tibial spine count R1/L1.