Galapagia solitaria Scudder, 1893

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 : 42

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Thespidae

Galapagia solitaria Scudder, 1893

Galapagia solitaria : Scudder 1893: 8; Kirby 1904: 276; Hebard 1920b: 317; Giglio-Tos 1927: 221; Beier 1935: 22; Hebard 1935: 280; Terra 1995: 40; Ehrmann 2002: 149 [Holotype and Allotype listed as deposited in MCZ]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 385 [Syntypes listed as deposited in CAS]; Agudelo et al. 2007: 121.

Type.

Lectotype Female (Fig. 3F; USNM ENT 00873977). One male and one female were described by Scudder (1893), 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.

S. Albemarle I. - Galapagos Is. / U.S.N.M. - Acc. 26662. / Galapagia - solitaria ♀ - Type! Scudd. / Type. - No. - U.S.N.M.

Measurements.

Body length 35.94; pronotum length 9.79; prozone length 3.29; pronotum width 2.29; pronotum narrow width 1.39; head width 3.39; head vertex to clypeus 1.63; frons width 1.19; frons height 0.46; prothoracic femur length 6.24; mesothoracic femur length 7.90; mesothoracic tibia length 7.37; mesothoracic tarsus length 4.47; metathoracic femur length 10.63; metathoracic tibia length 11.12; metathoracic tarsus length 6.94; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R9/L8; posteroventral femoral spine count R4/L4; anteroventral tibial spine count R5/L6; posteroventral tibial spine count R3/L2.