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Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin 1998

  • 1. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, UK & Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK & b. price @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5497 - 4087 Corresponding author: richardzhangjiazhi @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2819 - 9731 & Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW 7 2 AZ, UK

Description

Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998

(Figs. 8A; 8B; 8F; 8I; 8K;8N; 9A)

Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998: 95-99 (2♂; ♀); Ehrmann 2002: 119 (♂, ♀).

Type material:

Holotype. 1 ♂, Vietnam, prov. Gia Lai, 20 km N of Kannack, Buon Luoi, 22-31.111. 1995 A. Gorochov.

Paratypes: 1♂ same locality, 3-11X1.1993; 1♀, same data, “collected as last instar nymph, moulted to imago in laboratory in beginning of January 1994 ” A. Gorochov.

Diagnostic features and description: see Anisyutkin (1998).

Distribution. Vietnam

Remarks. The external morphologies resemble the Deroplatys truncata, but minor differences can be found in the male hindwing’s apex and the genitalia. Compared with Deroplatys truncata, the titilator (paa) has a very different shape. D. truncata has a narrower and curvier paa compared to D. gorochovi. The male hindwing’s apex is more acute in Deroplatys truncata. Although it is not mentioned in the original description, however, it seems the ratio of pronotum prozona and metazona of the female can be used to distinguish between the females of the two species.

The length of the metazona of female Deroplatys truncata is three times longer than its prozona, whereas the D. gorochovi are equal to three times longer or less. Therefore, without examining more specimens, this characteristic can be used as an identification key to separating two species.

Notes

Published as part of Zhang, Jia-Zhi & Price, Benjamin, 2024, Revision of the genus Deroplatys Westwood, 1839 (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 5445 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5445.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11070655

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Anisyutkin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mantodea
Family
Deroplatyidae
Genus
Deroplatys
Species
gorochovi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Deroplatys gorochovi Anisyutkin, 1998 sec. Zhang & Price, 2024

References

  • Anisyutkin, L. (1998) Notes on the genus Deroplatys Westwood, with description of a new species from Vietnam (Mantodea: Mantidae: Deroplatyinae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 7 (1), 95 - 99.
  • Ehrmann, R. (2002) n. k. In: Mantodea - Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier-Verlag, Mu ¨ nster, pp. 119 - 122.