Angela guianensis Rehn 1906
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Ehrmann, Reinhard
name: Stiewe, Martin B. D.
name: Mörtter, Rolf
name: Falkenberg, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Angela
Angela guianensis

description: Angela guianensis Rehn, 1906
(Figs. 37–38, 136)
Angela guianensis Rehn, 1906: 273–275.
= Thespis infuscata Chopard, 1912: 320–321.
Type locality. (A. guianansis) Demarara, Guyana (Rehn 1906); (A. infuscata) St. Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana (Chopard 1912).
Records. CeNak: ♂, VII.1970, leg. H. W. Koepcke. MUSM: 2 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 25.IX.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK); ♂, 230 m, lux, 02.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK); ♂, 230 m, lux, 08.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK); ♂, 230 m, 19.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK). NMB: ♂, 230 m, 07.X.2016, leg. R. Mörtter (QR-NMB-Mant 0548, ex. SMNK); ♂, 230 m, 19.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (QR-NMB-Mant 0549, ex. SMNK). SMNK: 4 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 03.X.2014, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12549–12552); ♂, 230 m, lux, 03.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12817); ♂, 230 m, lux, 08.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12811); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 22.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12818–12820); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, lux, 01.V.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12821–12823); 3 ♂♂, 230 m, 15.IV.2018, leg. R. Mörtter (SMNK-Mant 12814–12816); ♂, 230 m, 22.IX.2019, leg. R. Mörtter. ZSM: ♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 19.IX.– 04.X.2004, leg. E.-G. Burmeister, E. Diller, O. Gruler, M. Breitsameter & T. Kothe; ♂, 260 m, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe & Breitsameter; ♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer & T. Kothe; ♂, 260 m, 30.IX.–02.X.2009, leg. E.-G. Burmeister; ♂, 260 m, 20.IX.–15.X.2011, leg. E. Diller; ♂, 260 m, 10–28.V.2013, leg. E.-G. Burmeister; ♂, 260 m, 22.IX.–10.X.2017, leg. E.-G. Burmeister. CSC: ♂, 230 m, lux, 03.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (ex. SMNK).
Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.
Remarks. Captive breeding efforts have revealed the true female of this species to be virtually indistinguishable from that of A. armata (De Haan, 1842) (Fig. 38). The males are also very similar, sharing the very broad cerci, the shortened tegmina (with respect to the alae), and the infumated hindwings without yellow markings. In the male of A. guianensis, the smoky area of the hindwing covers only the distal half, while it extends to the base in A. armata (Fig. 37). Females, on the other hand, are not unambiguously distinguishable at the moment. The ones studied by us differ from those of A. armata only in the yellow markings on the hindwing being more checkered and less clearly offset from the infumate parts.
A. guianensis is one of the most widespread species of the genus, ranging from Costa Rica to southern Amazonia. Males are commonly collected at the study site.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4824 (1) on pages 18-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4401992