Hierodulinae
- 1. College of Landscape Architecture and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong 266109, China.
- 2. 1255487803 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6924 - 8774
- 3. College of Media, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266100, China
- 4. College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
Description
Key to the species of Hierodulinae from China
(modified from Schwarz, Ehrmann & Shcherbakov 2018)
1. Forefemur with 5 posteroventral spines; afa membranous, S-shaped, covered by long and dense setae (genus Mekongomantis Schwarz, Ehrmann & Shcherbakov, 2018)................. M. quinquespinosa Schwarz, Ehrmann & Shcherbakov, 2018
- Forefemur with 4 posteroventral spines................................................................... 2
2. Pronotum with a significant lateral expansion.............................................................. 3
- Pronotum without significant lateral expansion............................................................. 6
3. metazona about two times as long as prozona; tsg of inner forefemur pigmented; L4A with a simple long sdpl; afa simplified, not distinctly bilobed (Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer, 2015)................................................ 4
- metazona more than two times as long as prozona; L4A with a simple sdpl; afa branching into distinct two parts (Rhombodera Burmeister, 1838).................................................................................... 5
4. The length of pronotum is about 1.5 times as long as its widest point; inner forecoxa with bicoloured blue-white band..................................................................... R. longipennis Wang, Ehrmann & Borer, 2021
- The length of pronotum is about 2 times as long as its widest point; inner forecoxa unicolour.... R. fusca (Lombardo, 1992)
5. The length of the pronotum nearly equal to its width, and the width about 2 times as long as the width of head; pafa robust and short, with its apex not longer than loa............................................. R. latipronotum Zhang, 1990
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mantidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mantodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schwarz & Konopik
- Taxon rank
- subFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hierodulinae (Schwarz, 2014) sec. Liu, Liu, Wang & Yin, 2021
References
- Ehrmann, R. & Borer, M. (2015) Mantodea (Insecta) of Nepal: an annotated checklist. In: Hartmann, M. & Weipert, J. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya V. Erfurt: Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., 227 - 274.
- Burmeister, H. C. (1838) Handbuch der Entomologie. Fangschrecken, Mantodea. Handbuch der Entomologie, 2 (V - VIII), 397 - 756 (Mantodea: 517 - 552).
- Wang, Y., Ehrmann, R & Borer, M. (2021) A new species in the praying mantis genus Rhombomantis Ehrmann & Borer (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Indochina. Faunitaxys, 9 (8), 1 - 23.
- Lombardo, F. (1992) Studies on the Mantodea of Nepal (Insecta). Spixiana, 16 (3), 193 - 206.
- Zhang, G. Z. (1990) A new species of the genus Hierodula (Mantodea: Mantidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 12 (2), 113 - 114.