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Acromantis magna Yang 1996

  • 1. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China & Engineering Research Center of Biological Control, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510640, China

Description

Acromantis magna Yang, 1996

(Figs. 1C, 1D, 2G–J, 2K, 2L 8C, 9)

Acromantis magna Yang 1996: 1, fig. 1. Type locality: Guizhou Province, Maolan. Holotype: ♀ (CAU); Wu & Liu 2024: 15.

Material examined. 3 ♂♂, CHINA, Guangdong, Shaoguan City, Nanling National Nature Reserve, 15. VI.2024, Light Trap, Zi-Hao Zhu leg.; 1 ♀, Shaoguan City, Nanling National Nature Reserve, 8.VII.2024, Yu-Sen Chen leg. Remarks. Acromantis magna was originally described from a female specimen collected in Guizhou, China. Wu & Liu (2024) recorded this species in the southern and eastern China mainland, with a description and illustration. After examining the specimens from Guangdong, we found their morphological characteristics align with Yang’s description. Acromantis magna exhibits morphological similarities to A. grandis, but differs in the spination pattern of forelegs. In A. magna, the anteroventral femoral spines start with a short spine followed by a significantly longer spine, whereas in A. grandis, the first two anteroventral femoral spines are both short (Fig. 2K, L).

Notes

Published as part of Zhu, Zi-Hao & Wang, Xing-Min, 2026, Contribution to the genus Acromantis Saussure, 1870 (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae) from China, with description of a new species, pp. 26-38 in Zootaxa 5757 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/19173070

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Yang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mantodea
Family
Hymenopodidae
Genus
Acromantis
Species
magna
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acromantis magna Yang, 1996 sec. Zhu & Wang, 2026

References

  • Yang, C. K. (1996) Notes on a new species of genus Acromantis from Guizhou (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae). Guizhou Science, 14 (3), 1-3.
  • Wu, C. & Liu, C. X. (2024) Taxonomy of the genus Acromantis Saussure (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae) in China and surrounding areas. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, New Series, 60 (1), 15-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2023.2301343