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Parentella major Giglio-Tos 1915

  • 1. Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany
  • 2. Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität M ̧ nster, H ̧ fferstrasse 1, 48149 M ̧ nster, Germany https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9342 - 0172
  • 3. Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany & Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of W ̧ rzburg, Am Hubland, D- 97074 W ̧ rzburg, Germany https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2066 - 3202 * Corresponding author. ChristianSchw @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5575 - 9300 & Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, ND 1 / 31, D- 44780 Bochum, Germany

Description

Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915

Figs. 15–19, 22–23

Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915: 177.

= Ligaria senegalensis Roy, 1962: 94–97, Figs 2–4, pl. 1, Fig. a.

Type localities. (P. m.) Cameroon; (L. s.) Niokolo-Koba, Senegal.

Distribution. Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Cameroon (Giglio-Tos 1915c; Gillon & Roy 1968; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a, 1967, 1969, 1970b, 1971b, 1975, 1978; Roy & Leston 1975).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 324); ♀, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–01.VI.2019, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. Terricolous taxon widely distributed across the Sudan savanna belt. Females deposit the oothecae underground with the help of a digging device (Fig. 23) evolved at the tips of the gonapophyses VIII (Chroicoptera type, Wieland 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Giglio-Tos
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mantodea
Family
Chroicopteridae
Genus
Parentella
Species
major
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915 sec. Schwarz, Pohl & Frank, 2023

References

  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1915 c) Mantidi esotici. Generi e specie nuove. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 46, 134 - 200.
  • Gillon, Y. & Roy, R. (1968) Les Mantes de Lamto et des savanes de Cote d'Ivoire. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Serie A, 30, 1038 - 1151.
  • Prost, A. & Roy, R. (1986) Les Mantes du Burkina Faso (ex-Republique de Haute-Volta). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Serie A, 45, 66 - 117.
  • Ragge, D. R. & Roy, R. (1967) A Review of the Praying Mantises of Ghana (Dictyoptera Mantodea). Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Serie A, 29, 586 - 644.
  • Roy, R. (1962 a) Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba (2 eme fasc.). VI. Dictyoptera Mantodea. Memoirs de l'Institute Francais d ' Afrique Noire, 62, 91 - 103, 1 pl.
  • Roy, R. & Leston, D. (1975) Mantodea of Ghana: new species, further records and habitats. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Serie A, 37, 297 - 344.
  • Wieland, F. (2013) The phylogenetic system of Mantodea (Insecta: Dictyoptera). Species, Phylogeny, and Evolution, 3, 1 - 306. https: // doi. org / 10.17875 / gup 2013 - 711