Paralygdamia Saussure & Zehntner 1895
Creators: name: Roy, Roger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Tarachodidae
Paralygdamia

description: KEY FOR THE MALES OF PARALYGDAMIA SAUSSURE & ZEHNTNER, 1895   
 1. Fore femora with 4 external spines............................... P. madagascariensis (Audinet-Serville, 1838) n. comb.   
— Fore femora with 5 external spines.............................................................................................................. 2  
2. Frontal sclerite as high or higher than wide................................................................................................. 3  
— Frontal sclerite wider than high................................................................................................................... 5  
 3. Vertex trilobated (Fig. 1D)................................................................................................... P. gigliotosi n. sp.   
— Vertex simply curved................................................................................................................................... 4  
 4. Vertex clearly convex (Fig. 1E)............................................................................................. P. nosyensis n. sp.   
 — Vertex straight or slightly concave (Fig. 1F)...................................................................... P. grandidieri n. sp.   
 5. Prosternum with a slender median black line, frontal sclerite almost square (Fig. 1C)..................................... ..................................................................................................................... P. sikorai (Beier, 1931) n. comb.   
— Prosternum black in its most part, frontal sclerite transverse........................................................................ 6  
6. Hypophallus with its two processes acute.................................................................................................... 7  
— Hypophallus with only the left process acute............................................................................................... 9  
 7. The two processes of hypophallus very short, titillator ending in a small point (Fig. 15)....... P. punctata n. sp.   
— The two processes of hypophallus long, titillator with rounded apex............................................................ 8  
 8. Pseudophallus straight with a lateral projection (Fig. 5)................... P. madecassa Saussure & Zehntner, 1895   
 — Pseudophallus bent at a right angle, without lateral point (Fig. 14)..................................... P. ifatyensis n. sp. 9. Right process of hypophallus ending in a narrow round, pseudophallus rather short, becoming narrower in the middle, with some hairs (Fig. 13)..................................................................................... P. wintreberti n. sp.   
 — Right process of hypophallus wide, much greater than the left one, which ends in a turned right point, pseudophallus long and sinuous (Fig. 12)......................................................................................... P. fisheri n. sp.
description: Published as part of Roy, Roger, 2016, Révision du genre endémique malgache Paralygdamia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 (Dictyoptera, Mantodea, Tarachodidae), pp. 317-338 in Zoosystema 38 (3) on pages 320-321, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n3a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5154714