Stagmatoptera reimoseri Beier 1929
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Henrique Miranda
name: Cancello, Eliana Marques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Stagmatoptera
Stagmatoptera reimoseri

description: Stagmatoptera reimoseri Beier, 1929
Male—Figures 32D, 34D, 36D, 38D, 40D, 42D–48D, 54A. Female—Figures 33C, 35C, 37C, 39C, 42C, 49C–51C, 54B.
Stagmatoptera hyaloptera, Perty, 1832 in Werner, 1925b, p.382—misidentification (redescr.). Stagmatoptera reimoseri Beier, 1929, p. 252 (descr.); Ehrmann, 2002, p.330 (cit.); Agudelo et al., 2007, p.126 (cit.); Ehrmann & Koçak, 2009, p.12 (cit.).
Holotype: 1♂, Santa Sofia, Paraguay, 1908, Reimoser leg. (NHMW) (examined).
Paratypes: 1♀, Santa Sofia, Paraguay, 1908, Reimoser leg. (NHMW) (examined); 1♀, San Luis, Paraguay, 1908, Reimoser leg. (not examined); 1♀, São Paulo (not examined).
Type locality. Santa Sofia, Paraguay.
Diagnosis. Spot on the stigma in both sexes with an anterior white spot and two lateral brown spots that may or may not reach each other, prothorax broad and short, forecoxae almost reaching the mesothorax, frontal shield with four carinae in both sexes.
Redescription. Male —Frontal shield with four carinae. (Fig. 32 D). Prothorax short, broad, lateral margins slightly crenulated on the prozona, smooth on the metazona. Metazona with a weakly marked central keel (Fig. 34 D). Forecoxae with 5–8 large spines, which alternate with 0–5 smaller spine (Fig. 36 D). Forefemora elongated and broad, the first three discoidal spines dark on their anterior surface; 14–15 anteroventral spines, usually 15, the first spine and all the big spines dark on the anterior surface, the 10th and the 12th spines may present a small spot of the same coloration on their insertion. Anterior femoral spot extending from the femoral groove to the 8th internal spine, rectangular, an effaced black color that may be a little stronger on the base of the spines (Fig. 38 D). Foretibiae with 9–11 posteroventral spines, usually 11, and 14–16 anteroventral spines, usually 15; tibial spur green on its anterior surface (Fig. 40 D). Foretarsi with apical black spots on the anterior surface of the tarsomeres I to IV.
Discoidal area of the forewings with an opaque-green stripe anteriorly, gradually or suddenly becoming hyaline. Spot on the stigma medium sized, with an anterior white spot and two lateral brown spots, posteriorly open. Hindwings hyaline (Fig. 54 A).
Genitalia. Left phallomere longer than wider; sclerite L4B longer than wider; paa elongated, slightly dilated on the left side of its base, straight, the tip bent 45° to the left, apex simple, directed ventrally (Fig. 42 D); pda very short, broad, flattened, sharply bent to the right, compressed in two places, a very strong compression after the bent, and another at the base of the apex, the latter strongly sclerotized and tapered (Fig. 45 D); afa elongated, parallel to the body axis (Fig. 43 D), right margin rugged and sinuous (Fig. 44 D), posterior apex tumid with two projections, one on the right margin and the other on the posterior margin, rugged and strongly sclerotized, anterior apex straight, margins strongly sclerotized and tumid, forming a groove (Fig. 43 D); loa short, bent to the right and anteriorly (Fig. 43 D); membrane adjacent to afa pilous (Fig. 43 D). Right phallomere with the posterior apex truncated; bm short, with an expansion on the middle (Fig. 46 D); pia short, strongly sclerotized (Fig. 47 D–48D); pva elongated, sclerotized, angular apex (Fig. 48 D); an elongated, apex abruptly rounded (Fig. 47 D).
Measurements. Body length: 60–64.3; head width: 7.7–8.3; prozona length: 4.6–5.2; metazona length: 14.7–16.4; prothorax width: 5.5–6.1; forecoxae length: 11.8–13.8; forefemora length: 14.8–15.8; forefemora width: 3.6–3.9; foretibiae length: 7.9–9.
Ratios. head/prothoracic-width: 1.31–1.4; metazona/prozona: 2.94–3.35; metazona length/prothoracic width: 2.49–2.72; metazona/forecoxae: 1.17–1.25; forefemora length/width: 3.82–4.39.
Female —Frontal shield with four carinae (Fig. 33 C). Prothorax short, broad, lateral margins slightly crenulated. Metazona with a weakly marked central keel (Fig. 35 C). Forecoxae with 6–8 large spines, which alternate with 1–12 smaller spine (Fig. 37 C). Forefemora elongated and broad, the first three discoidal spines dark on their anterior surface; 14–15 anteroventral spines, usually 15, the first spine and all the big spines dark on the anterior surface, the 10th and the 12th spines may present a small spot of the same coloration on their insertion.
Anterior femoral spot extending from the femoral groove to the 8th internal spine, rectangular, an effaced black color (Fig. 39 C). Foretibiae with 10–12 posteroventral spines, usually 11, and 13–16 anteroventral spines, usually 15; tibial spur green on its anterior surface (Fig. 41 C). Foretarsi with apical black spots on the anterior surface of tarsomeres I to IV. Spot on the stigma medium sized, with an anterior white spot and two lateral brown spots that do not reach each other posteriorly. Costal area hyaline, discoidal and anal areas hyaline with yellow stripes on the crossveins (Fig. 54 B).
Genitalia. Base of the gonapophysis VIII projecting inwards (Fig. 49 C); bv roughly triangular (Fig. 49 C), the inner surface sculpted (Fig. 50 C); ib sclerotized and sculpted (Fig. 50 C); pe short, weakly sclerotized, with smooth margins (Fig. 50 C); gs sclerotized, sculpted (Fig. 51 C); ls roughly rectangular, posterior process short, conical (Fig. 51 C).
Measurements. Body length: 58.3–76.6; head width: 8.8–10.7; prozona length: 5.5–6.7; metazona length: 16.1–21.4; prothorax width: 6.8–8.6; forecoxae length: 14.4–19.5; forefemora length: 17.2–21.7; forefemora width: 4.3–5.4; foretibiae length: 8.8–11.8.
Ratios. Head/prothoracic-width: 1.17–1.34; metazona/prozona: 2.76–3.33; metazona length/prothoracic width: 2.26–2.49; metazona/forecoxae: 1.02–1.2; forefemora length/width: 3.82–4.29.
Remarks. Stagmatoptera reimoseri was described by Beier (1929) based on a few specimens housed on NHMW collection. A few years earlier Werner (1925) mistakenly identified these same specimens as S. hyaloptera.
Distribution. Brazil (Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Tocantins), Paraguay. Examined material. BRAZIL: Mato Grosso—Mato Verde, 13.iii.1945, Raymundo P. Luz, 1♀, (MZSP); Minas Gerais—Lavras, 194?, C. Braga, 1♀ (MZSP). Sete Lagoas, iii.1963, F. Werner, U. Martins & L. Silva, 1♀ (MZSP); São Paulo—Botucatu, x.1970, Abílio col., 1♀ (MZSP). Botucatu, iv.1972, P. Assumpção & A. Clarot, 1♂ (MZSP). Botucatu, 12.iii.1980, R. Carvalho, 1♂ (MZSP). Faz. Itaquerê, Nova Europa, 23.iv.1968, K. Lenko col., 1♂ (MZSP). Rio Claro, 25.ii.1943, Pd. F.S. Pereira col., 1♂ (MZSP). S. Paulo, 1♀ (NHMW); Tocantins—Miranorte, iv.1965, L. Gomes col., 1♀ (MZSP).
description: Published as part of Rodrigues, Henrique Miranda & Cancello, Eliana Marques, 2016, Taxonomic revision of Stagmatoptera Burmeister, 1838 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Stagmatopterinae), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4183 (1) on pages 51-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4183.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/164330