Title
A checklist of the praying mantises of Peru: new records, one new genus (Piscomantis gen. n.) and biogeographic remarks (Insecta, Mantodea)
Date Issued
19 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
We present a preliminary checklist of the praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) of Peru. A total of 67 species are reported, nine of which constitute new records from that country. The following new nomenclatural procedures are introduced: Musoniella margharethae Battiston and Picciau, 2008 is transferred to Musonia as Musonia margharethae (Battiston and Picciau, 2008) (comb. n.), and Phyllovates brevicollis Orofino, Ippolito and Lombardo, 2006 is considered a new synonym (syn. n.) of Pseudovates peruviana (Rehn, 1911). A new genus, Piscomantis gen. n., is established to accommodate Galapagia peruana Beier, 1935, which is now referred to as Piscomantis peruana (Beier, 1935) (comb. n.). Ten species are removed from the Peruvian mantis fauna and two nomina nuda are proposed. An overview of the biogeography and ecology of Peruvian praying mantises is presented.
Start page
361
End page
389
Volume
4337
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otros temas de Biología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85031791156
PubMed ID
Source
Zootaxa
ISSN of the container
11755326
Sponsor(s)
We thank all colleagues that contributed with their feedback and expertise on Neotropical praying mantises over the course of several years, including Antonio Agudelo, Reinhard Ehrmann, Francesco Lombardo and Roger Roy. Special thanks go to Eduardo Oyague (CORBIDI, Peru) for kindly preparing the maps shown in Figures 2 and 3, and to all curators from the various museums visited for granting access to type material. We are thankful to Carolina Medellín, who was kind enough to locate specimens of Galapagia solitaria in the USNM collection and arrange a loan for their study, and to Carolina Cuezzo, who draw JR’s attention to specimens of Piscomantis peruana studied by Max Beier and deposited at IFML. We also thank Germania Estévez (Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Islas Galápagos, Ecuador) for submitting specimens of G. solitaria for examination. This study was partially funded by an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship and a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement granted to JR by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and contributions from a Revisionary Synthesis in Systematics (REVSYS) grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded to G. J. Svenson (grant DEB-1216309). Additional funding contributions were available thanks to an NSERC Discovery Grant granted to JR’s former PhD advisor D.C. Currie (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada). To learn more about Neotropical praying mantises please visit http:// web.facebook.com/mantodeaneotropical.
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