Creobroter Audinet-Serville, 1839

Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, Zootaxa 3797 (1), pp. 130-168 : 144-145

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6144202

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scientific name

Creobroter Audinet-Serville, 1839
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Creobroter Audinet-Serville, 1839 View in CoL

Harpax (Creobroter) Audinet-Serville, 1839

= Creoboter Stål, 1877 View in CoL

= Creobrotra Saussure, 1898 View in CoL

This is a taxonomically difficult genus in need of revision. Twenty-one species occur in S and SE Asia, four are currently listed for Borneo. First instar nymphs mimic reduviid bugs. Arboricolous, also on high weeds and scrubs, in forested and open habitats.

Creobroter urbanus ( Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL

Mantis urbana Fabricius, 1775

Distribution. India, Myanmar, N Vietnam, S China, Sumatra, N Borneo, E Java, N Philippines ( Giglio-Tos 1927, Ehrmann 2002).

Bornean records. Sarawak: Kuching (SMSM), Limbang (SMSM).

Creobroter granulicollis Saussure, 1870 View in CoL

Distribution. NE Sumatra, W Java, Borneo ( Hebard 1920, Giglio-Tos 1927, Ehrmann 2002). Bornean records. Brunei: Kuala Belalong (OK in situ); Sabah: Maliau Basin (OK in situ), Danum Valley

( Helmkampf et al. 2007; CSUB), Poring Hot Springs ( Helmkampf et al. 2007).

Remarks. Lack of females leaves the identification with some uncertainty.

Creobroter episcopalis Stål, 1877 View in CoL

Creoboter episcopalis Stål, 1877

Distribution. Borneo ( Stål, 1877, Giglio-Tos 1927).

Sarawak: Baram River (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1898); Sabah: Labuan Island ( Hebard 1920). Remarks. Werner (1923) considers this species synonymous with C. granulicollis .

Creobroter labuanae Hebard, 1920 View in CoL

Distribution. N Borneo: Sabah: Labuan ( Hebard 1920), Mt. Kinabalu ( Beier 1942).

Beier, M. (1942) Neue und seltene Mantodeen aus deutschen Museen. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 52, 126 - 154.

Ehrmann, R. (2002) Mantodea - Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier-Verlag, Munster, 519 pp.

Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae. Korte, Flensburg & Leipzig, XXX + 832 pp.

Giglio-Tos, E. (1927) Das Tierreich. 50. Lfg. - Orthoptera Mantidae. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin & Leipzig, XL + 707 pp.

Hebard, M. (1920) Studies in Malayan, Papuan, and Australian Mantidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 71, 14 - 82.

Helmkampf, M., Schwarz, C. J. & Beck, J. (2007) A first look at the biodiversity of praying mantids (Insecta: Mantodea) in Sabah, Borneo. Sepilok Bulletin, 7, 1 - 13.

Saussure, H. de (1870) Additions au systeme des mantides. Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 3 (5), 221 - 244.

Saussure, H. de (1898) Analecta entomologica. I. Orthopterologica. Famille des Mantides. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 5, 183 - 248, 787 - 809.

Stal, C. (1877) Systema Mantodeorum. Essai d'une systematisation nouvelle des Mantodees. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar, 4 (10), 1 - 91, 1 pl.

Werner, F. (1923) Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Mantodeen von Niederlandisch-Indien. Treubia, 3 (3 - 4), 387 - 404.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Hymenopodidae

SubFamily

Oxypilinae

Genus

Creobroter