Published November 29, 2025
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Roythespis israelensis gen. et sp. n. (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Toxoderidae), a new praying mantis from Israel
Authors/Creators
- 1. The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail: m.stiewe@nhm.co.uk
- 2. The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel
Contributors
Editor:
- 1. The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: laibale@tauex.tau.ac.il
Description
A new genus and species of praying mantises, Roythespis israelensis gen et sp. n., is described from Israel. The new genus belongs in the subfamily Toxoderinae (Toxoderidae), and is most closely related to Belomantis Giglio-Tos, 1914 and Calamothespis Werner, 1907, from which it differs in having a weakly rounded and very short pseudophallus, and conspicuous but not overdeveloped juxtaocular bulges. The new species features an elongated body and slender habitus, short legs, a prognathous head and greatly extended and distally flattened cerci. The holotype of Toxomantis sinensis Giglio-Tos, 1914 is illustrated for the first time.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:08D44E51-836A-44DC-8CB5-21A9479A934D
Dates
- Submitted
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2025-10-23
- Accepted
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2025-11-11
Biodiversity
- Basis of record
- PreservedSpecimen
- Institution code
- SMNHTAU , TAUI
- Catalog number
- In.233828
- Life stage
- adult
- Sex
- male
- Event date
- 1998-05-29
- Verbatim event date
- 29.v.1998
- Locality
- Hazeva Field School, Shezaf Nature Reserve
- Decimal latitude
- 30.76
- Decimal longitude
- 35.24
- Country
- Israel
- Country code
- il
- Scientific name
- Roythespis israelensis
- Scientific name authorship
- Stiewe, Weinstein & Simon, 2025
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Dictyoptera
- Family
- Toxoderidae
- Genus
- Roythespis
- Species
- israelensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- accepted
- Type status
- Holotype