Parastagmatoptera
| Parastagmatoptera | |
|---|---|
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| 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
- Parastagmatoptera amazonica
- Parastagmatoptera concolor
- Parastagmatoptera confusa
- Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata
- Parastagmatoptera glauca
- Parastagmatoptera hoorie
- Parastagmatoptera immaculata
- Parastagmatoptera pellucida
- Parastagmatoptera serricornis
- Parastagmatoptera simulacrum
- Parastagmatoptera tessellata
- Parastagmatoptera unipunctata
- Parastagmatoptera vitreola
- Parastagmatoptera vitrepennis
- Parastagmatoptera zernyi
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
References
- ↑ ITIS Catalogue of Life
- ↑ Lombardo F and Umbriaco R (2011). "Taxonomic re-evaluation of Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963 (Dictyoptera, Mantidae: Stagmatopterinae): An unusual case of "parasite-induced" synonymy" (PDF). Zootaxa 2735: 31–34. ISSN 1175-5334.
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