Popa batesi Saussure & Zehntner, 1895

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 : 59

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Mantidae

Popa batesi Saussure & Zehntner, 1895

Popa batesi : Saussure and Zehntner 1895: 230-233; Kirby 1904: 309; Rehn 1911: 26; Giglio-Tos 1927: 631; Paulian 1957: 93; Lombardo 1995: 260 [Junior SYN of Popa spurca spurca ]; Ehrmann 2002: 287 [SYN]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 306 [NON-SYN].

Type.

Lectotype Female (Fig. 14 A–C; USNM ENT 00873970). One female and one male were described by Saussure and Zehntner (1895), neither being designated as the sole name-bearing type specimen. Therefore, they are syntypes under Article 72.1.1 of the Code. Herewithin, the female specimen is designated as the lectotype, the male the paralectotype under Article 74.1.1 of the Code. No prior fixation of a sole name-bearing type specimen was found in the literature.

Lectotype labels.

Madagase - Annanariv / SAUSSURE / Popa - Batesi Sauss. / Co-Type - No. 3694 - U.S.N.M.

Measurements.

Body length 56.03; forewing length 24.63; hindwing length 20.51; pronotum length 16.94; prozone length 4.61; pronotum width 5.27; pronotum narrow width 3.49; head width 6.48; head vertex to clypeus 3.18; frons width 2.47; frons height 1.23; prothoracic femur length 11.46; mesothoracic femur length 7.93; mesothoracic tibia length 6.99; mesothoracic tarsus length 6.09; metathoracic femur length 9.77; metathoracic tibia length 10.69; metathoracic tarsus length 6.76; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R13/L14; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R10/L10; posteroventral tibial spine count R8/L8.