Panurgica liberiana Rehn, 1912

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

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Hymenopodidae

Panurgica liberiana Rehn, 1912

Panurgica liberiana : Rehn 1912: 466-468; Giglio-Tos 1927: 553; Beier 1934: 22; Ehrmann 2002: 260 [Holotype listed as deposited in ANSP]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 95.

Type.

Holotype Male (Fig. 13 D–F; USNM ENT 00873988). The male specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1912) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing male specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Mt. Coffee - Liberia / Liberia - GPGoll / Panurgica - liberiana - TYPE Rehn / Type - No. - U.S.N.M. [USNM Type No. 14607 reported by Rehn 1912]

Measurements.

Body length 34.60; forewing length 26.28; hindwing length 24.65; pronotum length 5.77; prozone length 2.69; pronotum width 4.60; pronotum narrow width 2.26; head width 5.28; head vertex to clypeus 2.42; frons width 1.74; frons height 0.96; prothoracic femur length 8.16; mesothoracic femur length 6.18; mesothoracic tibia length 5.34; mesothoracic tarsus length 4.54; metathoracic femur length 6.90; metathoracic tibia length 6.64; metathoracic tarsus length 5.57; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R12/L12; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R11/L11; posteroventral tibial spine count R12/L12.