Stagmatoptera insatiabilis Rehn, 1904

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 : 61-62

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Stagmatoptera insatiabilis Rehn, 1904

Stagmatoptera insatiabilis : Rehn 1904: 572-573; Kirby 1904: 301; Rehn 1911: 13; Giglio-Tos 1914: 36; Hebard 1923: 340 [Junior synonym of Stagmomantis theophila Rehn, 1904]; Giglio-Tos 1927: 384 [SYN]; Hebard 1933: 29 [SYN]; Beier 1935: 96 [SYN]; Terra 1995: 70 [SYN]; Ehrmann 2002: 333 [SYN]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 212 [SYN]; Agudelo et al. 2007: 150 [SYN].

Type.

Holotype Female (Fig. 15 A–C; USNM ENT 00873972). The female specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Hebard (1904) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing female specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Turrialba - Costa Rica / Coll Schild - & Burgdorf / Stagmatoptera - insatiabilis - TYPE Rehn. / Type - No. 7052 - U.S.N.M. [Cat. No. 6954, U.S.N.M.; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 71.73; forewing length 34.77; hindwing length 31.46; pronotum length 29.17; prozone length 6.77; pronotum width 6.20; pronotum narrow width 3.39; head width 8.95; head vertex to clypeus 3.71; frons width 3.13; frons height 1.78; prothoracic femur length 19.35; mesothoracic femur length 16.69; mesothoracic tibia length 13.76; mesothoracic tarsus length 7.37; metathoracic femur length 20.45; metathoracic tibia length 19.51; metathoracic tarsus length 10.47; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R15/L16; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R13/L13; posteroventral tibial spine count R11/L12.