Published February 13, 2023
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Hierodula majuscula
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Description
Hierodula majuscula (Tindale, 1923)
This species has been frequently misidentified as H. atrocoxata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 in overseas collections. H. atrocoxata is a smaller species that lacks orange on the forecoxae and is otherwise only known from Indonesia (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1898).
Of note is that a small adventive population of this species is known from Tondoon Botanic Gardens, Gladstone, having likely arrived in tropical plants from further north (Britstra 2020). They have seemingly not spread far beyond the initial introduction point.
Notes
Published as part of Connors, Matthew G., 2023, Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist, pp. 477-499 in Zootaxa 5239 (4) on page 483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7635154
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tindale
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Mantodea
- Family
- Mantidae
- Genus
- Hierodula
- Species
- majuscula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hierodula majuscula (Tindale, 1923) sec. Connors, 2023
References
- Tindale, N. B. (1923) Review of Australian Mantidae. Records of the South Australian Museum, 2, 425 - 457.
- Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1898) Orthopteren des Malayischen Archipels, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. W. Kuckenthal in den Jahren 1893 und 1894. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 24, 193 - 288.
- Britstra, T. (2020) Giant Rainforest Mantis (Hierodula majuscula) from Glen Eden QLD 4680, Australia on 12 March 2020 at 11: 37 AM by Teale Britstra. iNaturalist. Available from: https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 39868715 / (accessed 14 July 2022)