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Deroplatys desiccata Westwood 1839
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Loitzer Str. 26, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
Description
Deroplatys desiccata Westwood, 1839
Deroplatys angustata Westwood, 1839: 430.
Material examined (4 males, 3 females)
BORNEO • 1 ♀; two yellow labels “ female Borneo / Stdgr.” // “desiccata / Westw. / palliata De Haan / pl.16, fig. 1, 2. / Sumatra Fruhst.”; ZIMG • 1 ♂; white label “ Nordborneo / Alverett / ex coll. Fruhstorfer ”; ZIMG.
INDONESIA • 1 ♂; white label “ Ostjava male”; ZIMG • 1 ♂; white label “male Java orient. / Fruhst.”; ZIMG.
UNKNOWN LOCALITY • 1 ♀; white label “palliata / De Haan female / pl. 16, fig. 2”; ZIMG • 1 ♂; “male arida Westw. / Arc. pl. 9, fig. 1”; ZIMG • 1 ♀; ZIMG.
Additional labels
All specimens with white label “ Deroplatys desiccata / Westwood, 1839 / det. R. Ehrmann, III. 1999 ”.
Notes
Published as part of Mainda, Tobias, Michalik, Peter & Lopardo, Lara, 2026, An annotated catalogue of type and non-type material of praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) housed in the Zoological Museum of the University of Greifswald (ZIMG), Germany, pp. 1-79 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1063 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1063.3287, http://zenodo.org/record/21238219
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZIMG
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Mantodea
- Family
- Deroplatyidae
- Genus
- Deroplatys
- Species
- desiccata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Deroplatys desiccata Westwood, 1839 sec. Mainda, Michalik & Lopardo, 2026
References
- Westwood J. O. 1839. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects. Vol. 1. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, London.