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Mantis religiosa subsp. eichleri Bazyluk 1960

  • 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

Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960

Figs. 168–169, 181–182

Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960: 250–253, Figs 6, 15–16, 26, 33, 43–44, 54.

= Mantis pia Audinet-Serville, 1838: 193.

= Mantis capensis Saussure, 1872: 46–47.

= Mantis religiosa var. major Gerstaecker, 1873: 12.

Type localities. (M. r. e.) Livingstone, Zambia; (M. p.) Cape region, RSA; (M. c.) Cape region, RSA.

Distribution. Africa south of the Sahara (Berg et al. 2011).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12. V.2017, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. The “European” Mantis is much less common in tropical habitats than in subtropical and temperate parts of its extensive range (Siberia to Cape region, Portugal to Timor, introduced in the USA: Berg et al. 2011, Anderson 2018).

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 page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bazyluk
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mantodea
Family
Mantidae
Genus
Mantis
Species
eichleri
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Mantis religiosa subsp. eichleri Bazyluk, 1960 sec. Schwarz, Pohl & Frank, 2023

References

  • Bazyluk, W. (1960) Die geographische Verbreitung und Variabilitat von Mantis religiosa (L.) (Mantodea, Mantidae), sowie Beschreibungen neuer Unterarten. Annales Zoologici, 18, 231 - 272.
  • Audinet-Serville, J. G. (1838) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthopteres. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, XVIII + 782 pp., 14 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 16081
  • Saussure, H. de (1872) Melanges orthopterologiques. IVme Fascicule. Mantides et Blattides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 23, 1 - 164, 3 pls.
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C. F. Winter´sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg, 543 pp.
  • Berg, M. K., Schwarz, C. J. & Mehl, J. E. (2011) Die Gottesanbeterin, Mantis religiosa. Die neue Brehm-B ¸ cherei Bd. 656. Westarp Wissenschaften, Hohenwarsleben, 521 pp.
  • Anderson, K. (2018) Praying mantises of the United States and Canada. Independently published, 291 pp.