Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis ( Wood-Mason, 1879 )

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), Zootaxa 5373 (1), pp. 1-64 : 43

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10248991

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scientific name

Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis ( Wood-Mason, 1879 )
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Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis ( Wood-Mason, 1879) View in CoL

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Sigerpes occidentalis Wood-Mason, 1879: 259 .

= Sigerpes toganus Giglio-Tos, 1915: 13 .

Type localities. (S. o.) Sierra Leone; (S. t.) Bismarckburg, Togo.

Distribution. Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo ( Beier 1968; Giglio-Tos 1915a; Gillon & Roy 1968; Miles 2021; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1964b, 1965a, 1967, 1970b, 1971a, 1975, 2013a; Roy & Leston 1975; Wood-Mason 1879).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 317); ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. One of the few species previously recorded from the CNP ( Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 2013a). There are two female morphs, one with a long vertex process ( occidentalis ) and another with a short process. Roy (2013a) considered them to be conspecific, since only one type of male ( toganus ) attributable to these females has been found so far. The remaining uncertainty can only be clarified with breeding experiments.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Hymenopodidae

Genus

Oxypiloidea

Loc

Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis ( Wood-Mason, 1879 )

Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T. 2023
2023
Loc

Sigerpes occidentalis

Wood-Mason, J. 1879: 259
1879
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