Popa spurca spurca Stål, 1856

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 : 45-46

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10248993

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E0178-FFFB-D36A-FF44-02D2B3F3A482

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scientific name

Popa spurca spurca Stål, 1856
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Popa spurca spurca Stål, 1856 View in CoL

Figs. 152–156 View FIGURES 152–156

Popa spurca Stål, 1856: 169 View in CoL .

= Popa batesi Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 230–233 .

= Popa servillei Giglio-Tos, 1907: 3–4 .

= Popa stuhlmanni Rehn, 1914: 26–29 .

Type localities. (P. sp.) Durban , RSA; (P. b.) Imérina , Madagascar; (P. se.) Antananarivo, Madagascar; (P. st.) Ituri , DRC .

Distribution. Senegal to RSA, Madagascar ( Lombardo 1995).

Records. CSC: juv., old camp, XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; juv. ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 16.II.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 24.II.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), III.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; juv. ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), III.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 02.V.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 165); 2 ♀♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), VII.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred, 07.VII.2004, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 4 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive laid 2001– 2004, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 473). SMNK: 2 ♁♁ + ♀ + 5 exuviae + 2 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred, ded. C. J. Schwarz (SMNK-Mant. 07580–07588) .

Remarks. An arboricolous “short stick mantis” distributed in wooded savannas of Africa south of the Sahara. A second subspecies inhabits Ethiopia to Tanzania east of the Rift Valley ( Lombardo 1995). The biology of Ivorian populations was described by Schwarz (2004).

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Deroplatyidae

Genus

Popa

Loc

Popa spurca spurca Stål, 1856

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

Popa stuhlmanni

Rehn, J. A. G. 1914: 29
1914
Loc

Popa servillei

Giglio-Tos, E. 1907: 4
1907
Loc

Popa batesi

Saussure, H. D. & Zehntner, L. 1895: 233
1895
Loc

Popa spurca Stål, 1856: 169

Stal, C. 1856: 169
1856
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