Parastagmatoptera

Parastagmatoptera
Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata -Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Stagmatopterinae
Genus: Parastagmatoptera
Species

15, see text

Parastagmatoptera is a genus consisting of 15 species of mantises in the subfamily Stagmatopterinae.[1]

Species

Only one specimen of P. abnormis has ever been collected—a single male specimen collected in Suriname by Max Beier in 1963. A study published in 2011 strongly suggests that P. abnormis is actually a specimen of P. flavoguttata which demonstrates abnormal morphology due to infection by a horsehair worm (Nematomorpha).[2]

See also

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