Toxoderella Giglio-Tos 1914
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Toxoderella Giglio-Tos, 1914
Toxoderella fortnumi (Westwood, 1889)
I have examined the type of this enigmatic species and although it is undoubtedly a member of the Toxoderinae, the type locality is almost certainly incorrect. The collection locality is tentatively given as northern Australia by both Westwood (1889) and Giglio-Tos (1914), but no other member of the Toxoderinae is known from anywhere outside of Afro-Eurasia (Schwarz & Roy 2019). The type specimen was collected by C. D. E. Fortnum, who also collected the type specimens of Amorphoscelis pellucida (see comments under that species). One of these specimens has been mislabelled as having come from Adelaide when in fact it was from Sri Lanka (Roy 2009), and it seems highly likely that the type of T. fortnumi is similarly mislabelled. Indeed, the purported closest relatives of the species (Toxodanuria Uvarov, 1940; Euthyphleps Wood-Mason, 1889; and Toxoderopsis Wood-Mason, 1889) all occur in South Asia (Schwarz & Roy 2019), and it is almost certain that this is where the specimen originated. For this reason, it is removed from the Australian list.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Toxoderidae
- Genus
- Toxoderella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mantodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Giglio-Tos
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Toxoderella Giglio-Tos, 1914 sec. Connors, 2023
References
- Giglio-Tos, E. (1914) Mantidi Raccolti da S. A. R. la Duchessa d'Aosta nella regione dei grandi laghi dell'Africa equatoriale. Revisione della sottofamiglia dei Toxoderini. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Universita di Napoli, 4 (15), 1 - 17.
- Westwood, J. O. (1889) Revisio Insectorum Familiae Mantidarum, speciebus novis aut minus cognitis descriptis et delineates. Gurney & Jackson, London, 53 pp.
- Schwarz, C. J. & Roy, R. (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, New Series, 55 (2), 101 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2018.1556567
- Roy, R. (2009) Une nouvelle synonymie pour le genre Amorphoscelis Stal, 1871 (Dict., Amorphoscelidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 114 (1), 128. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / bsef. 2009.2775
- Uvarov, B. P. (1940) IX. - Twenty-four new Generic Names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany and Geology, Series 6, 6 (31), 112 - 117. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745481.1940.9723661
- Wood-Mason, J. (1889) A Catalogue of the Mantodea, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, and an Enumeration of the Specimens, in the Collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 66 pp.