Phyllothelys Wood-Mason, 1876

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 : 143

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scientific name

Phyllothelys Wood-Mason, 1876
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Phyllothelys Wood-Mason, 1876

= Phyllothelis Beier, 1935 (er r. des cr.)

= Kishinouyea Ôuchi, 1938

= Kishinouyeum Ôuchi, 1938

A taxonomically difficult genus with variable systematic placement: Harpaginae ( Rehn 1903), Acromantinae ( Giglio-Tos 1915a, 1919, 1927, Werner 1922, 1926), Hymenopodidae Phyllotheliinae ( Wang 1993; its now synonym, Kishinoueyum, was placed among Vatidae Vatinae in the same work), Mantinae Phyllotheliini ( Beier 1935c), Mantidae Phyllotheliinae ( Beier 1964, 1968, Mukherjee et al. 1995, Ehrmann 2002, Otte & Spearman 2005, the latter two placing Kishinouyeum under Mantidae Vatinae ) and Phyllotheliidae ( Yang & Wang 1999). However, the molecular phylogeny presented by Svenson & Whiting (2009) corroborates its placement among Hymenopodidae . Eighteen incompletely decribed species occurring in S and SE Asia are known, most are distinguished mainly by the shape of the process on the vertex ( Ehrmann & Roy 2009). Arboricolous.

Phyllothelys sp.

Distribution. Borneo: Sabah: Poring Hot Springs ( Helmkampf et al. 2007); Kalimantan: Paku ( Giglio-Tos 1915a).

Remarks. Giglio-Tos (1915a) assigned two males from Borneo and Java to a female he described on that occasion as Phyllothelys decipiens Giglio-Tos, 1915 , but Ehrmann & Roy (2009) suggest that the males and the female are not conspecific. The only other Bornean specimen known in the literature is the unidentified male mentioned in Helmkampf et al. (2007), leaving the sole species known so far from the island without specific epithet.

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.

Beier, M. (1935 c) Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Mantinae. Genera Insectorum, Fascicule 203, 1 - 146. [Nachtrage 1937 c, 3 pp.]

Beier, M. (1964) Blattopteroidea, Mantodea. In: Bronn, H. G. (Ed.), Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Funfter Band: Arthropoda. III Abteilung: Insecta. Geest & Portig, Leipzig, pp. 849 - 970.

Beier, M. (1968) 12. Mantodea (Fangheuschrecken). In: Helmcke, J. - G., Starck, D., Wermuth, H. (Eds.), Handbuch der Zoologie. IV. Band: Arthropoda - 2: Insecta. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, pp. 1 - 47.

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

Ehrmann, R. & Roy, R. (2009) Taxonomy and synonymy of Phyllothelys Wood-Mason (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.), 45 (1), 67 - 76. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2009.10697590

Giglio-Tos, E. (1915 a) Mantidi esotici. VIII. Acromantinae. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 30 (702), 1 - 16.

Giglio-Tos, E. (1919) Saggio di una nuova classificazione dei mantidi. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 49, 50 - 87.

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

Mukherjee, T. K., Hazra, A. K. & Ghosh, A. K. (1995) The Mantid Fauna of India (Insecta: Mantodea). Oriental Insects, 29, 185 - 358. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1995.10433744

Otte, D. & Spearman, L. (2005) Mantida species file - Catalog of the mantids of the world. Insect Diversity Association, Publication Number 1, Philadelphia, 489 pp.

Rehn, J. A. G. (1903) Studies in Old World Mantidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 55, 701 - 718.

Wang, T. (1993) Synopsis on the classification of Mantodea from China. Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, IV + 172 pp.

Yang, C. & Wang, J. (1999) Mantodea. In: Fauna of Insects - Fujian Province of China. Vol. 1. Science and Technology Publisher of Fujian Province, Fuzhou, pp. 74 - 106.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae

SubFamily

Oxypilinae