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Revision of the Genera Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 and Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 Stat Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology ISSN: 0037-9271 (Print) 2168-6351 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tase20 Revision of the genera Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 and Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 stat. rev., with description of a new species (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) Martin B. Stiewe & Evgeny Shcherbakov To cite this article: Martin B. Stiewe & Evgeny Shcherbakov (2017) Revision of the genera Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 and Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 stat. rev., with description of a new species (Dictyoptera: Mantodea), Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.), 53:3, 175-196, DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2017.1327330 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2017.1327330 Published online: 07 Jun 2017. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=tase20 Download by: [Evgeny Shcherbakov] Date: 07 June 2017, At: 09:07 Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.), 2017 Vol. 53, No. 3, 175–196, https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2017.1327330 Revision of the genera Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 and Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 stat. rev., with description of a new species (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) Martin B. Stiewea* & Evgeny Shcherbakovb aThe Natural History Museum, London, Department of Entomology, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, UK; bFaculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia (Accepté le 26 avril 2017) Summary. The oriental species previously included in the rarely collected genus Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 (Mantodea: Iridopterygidae) are revised. N. coomani (Chopard, 1930) and N. mirabilis Beier, 1933 strongly differ from the type species N. metallica (Westwood, 1845) by family-level morphological features, but share a unique type of forefemoral armament with the genera Hapalopeza Stål, 1877 and Amantis Giglio-Tos, 1915, suggesting Nemotha is of a polyphyletic nature. The genus Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 is resurrected from synonymy to accommodate T. coomani, T. mirabilis n. comb. and the species which is newly described in this article, T. intermedius n. sp.The monotypic genus Pseudogousa Tinkham, 1937 and its species P. s inens is Tinkham, 1937 are synonymized with Tricondylomimus and T. mirabilis, respectively. The genus Tricondylomimus is placed in Iridopterygidae, while Nemotha is transferred to Hymenopodidae: Anaxarchini. Résumé. Révision des genres Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 et Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 stat. rev., avec description d’une nouvelle espèce (Dictyoptera : Mantodea). Les espèces orientales précédemment incluses dans le genre rarement collecté Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 (Mantodea : Iridopterygidae) sont révisées. N. coomani (Chopard, 1930) et N. mirabilis Beier, 1933 diffèrent fortement de l’espèces type N. metallica (Westwood, 1845) par des caractères morphologiques du niveau familial, mais partagent avec les genres Hapalopeza Stål, 1877 et Amantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 un ’ type unique de l armature des fémurs antérieurs, suggérant la nature polyphylétique de Nemotha dans sa compréhension actuelle. Le genre Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 est ressuscité de la synonymie pour inclure T. coomani, T. mirabilis n. comb. et une espèce nouvellement décrite, T. intermedius n. sp. Le genre monotypique Pseudogousa Tinkham, 1937 et son espèce P. sinensis Tinkham, 1937 sont synonymes respectivement de Tricondylomimus et de T. mirabilis. Le genre Tricondylomimus est placé dans les Iridopterygidae, tandis que Nemotha est transféré aux Hymenopodidae : Anaxarchini. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EA2C7A1A-DB81-4C9F-959A-4F629736D1BE Keywords: Hymenopodidae; Iridopterygidae; taxonomy; revision; new species; oriental region History of the genera Nemotha, Tricondylomimus and The genus Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 is one of the least Pseudogousa known Oriental genera of praying mantises (Mantodea). It currently includes three species known almost exclusively Westwood (1845) described Mantis metallica based on a by their type specimens: Nemotha metallica (Westwood, single female from Sylhet, modern Bangladesh. He pro- 1845) known from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and vided a drawing and a description of the coloration. China, N. mirabilis Beier, 1933 from China and N. coo- Saussure (1871)includedM. metallica in his genus mani (Chopard, 1930) from Vietnam. At present, the Micromantis Saussure, 1870. He divided the genus into genus is classified in the family Iridopterygidae three groups or subgenera: the nominative subgenus with (Ehrmann 2002). However, recent advances in Mantodea the type species, M. glauca Saussure, 1870, and M. planiceps phylogenetics (Yager & Svenson 2008; Svenson & (De Haan, 1842), the subgenus Odontomantis Saussure, Whiting 2009) show this family to be polyphyletic, leav- 1871 with its type species, M.(O.) javana Saussure, 1871, ing uncertainty about the correct place of the genus. The and the third group, unnamed subgenus, with M. metallica. principal aim of this work is to revise the genera Nemotha Today, M. planiceps and M. javana are considered synonyms and Tricondylomimus stat. rev., bring clarity to its taxo- (Ehrmann 2002; Otte & Spearman 2005) and placed in the nomic status and volume, describe a new species and elevated genus Odontomantis of the family Hymenopodidae discuss the taxonomic position of all species in the system (tribe Anaxarchini), while the genus Micromantis,withthe of Mantodea. species M. glauca, belongs to Iridopterygidae. *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] © 2017 Société entomologique de France 176 M.B. Stiewe & E. Shcherbakov Wood-Mason (1884) created a new subgenus, and the second to Iridopterygidae, just like Tinkham Nemotha, for Mantis metallica and provided a description (1937a, 1937b). Wang did not examine the specimens. of the second female collected on Nemotha Peak, Assam. Mukherjee et al. (1995) provided additional details on In his opinion, the species is very closely related to the morphology of N. metallica, based on the specimens Odontomantis javana and Antissa pulchra (Olivier, collected earlier in Arunachal Pradesh, while treating the 1792) (today Odontomantis pulchra: Otte & Spearman species as a member of Hymenopodidae. 2005). Ehrmann & Roy (in Ehrmann 2002) transferred Giglio-Tos (1919, 1927) placed Nemotha in his tribe Pseudogousa from Iridopterygidae to Liturgusidae and Euantissae (a new name for Antissae), of the subfamily left Nemotha (with Tricondylomimus as a synonym) in Hymenopodinae, together with Odontomantis and Iridoptergygidae: Iridopterygini. Euantissa Giglio-Tos, 1927 (= Odontomantis). Otte & Spearman (2005) used the same arrangement. Chopard (1930) described the genus Tricondylomimus Yager & Svenson (2008) used a female of Nemotha Chopard, 1930 and species T. coomani based on a male and a male of Pseudogousa as part of their study on the and female from Tonkin, now North Vietnam. He sug- mantodean cyclopean ear morphology and evolution, and gested the placement of this new genus in his tribe coded them as having DO and MSMT types, correspond- Metallytici of the subfamily Eremiaphilinae, though he ingly. Unfortunately, they did not indicate the species. noted considerable differences from the only genus of Thinh (2010) reported a male of N. coomani from Kon this tribe, Metallyticus Westwood, 1835. Tum, Vietnam. Beier (1933) described a second species of the genus Zhu et al. (2012) provided new data for P. sinensis: its Nemotha, N. mirabilis, based on a single female from distribution in China, photos of the male, female and Lung Tao Shan, northern Guangdong, China. He assigned ootheca, as well as life history and breeding data. They this species to Nemotha with some doubt, as he knew N. followed Ehrmann (2002) in arranging Pseudogousa metallica by Westwood’s picture and descriptions only. under Liturgusidae and Nemotha (with N. coomani and Based on his generic placement of N. mirabilis and mor- N. mirabilis listed) under Iridopterygidae. No specimens phology of the latter, he transferred the genus from of the latter two species were examined. Hymenopodinae to Iridopteryginae. Mukherjee et al. (2014) considered N. metallica in Beier (1935) synonymized Tricondylomimus with Iridopterygidae in a new checklist of the mantid fauna of Nemotha, without any comments, and listed N. coomani India. as a valid species. Most recently, Wu & Liu (2017) reported N. metallica Tinkham (1937a) described the genus Pseudogousa and from China for the first time. species P. sinensis on the basis of two adult males and a male nymph from Hainan and Kwangtung, respectively. He also listed an additional female of T. coomani from Tonkin, Material and methods close to the border of China, treating the genus Abbreviations Tricondylomimus as valid (probably being unaware of the BMNH: British Museum of Natural History, London, UK. ’ synonymization). He placed both genera in Iridopteryginae MNHN: Muséum national d Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. OXUM: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, because, in his opinion, their pronotal and leg features point Oxford, UK. to relationships with Spilomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 and ZMBH: Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Muscimantis Henry, 1931. He also noted a close morpho- Berlin, Germany. logical similarity between Pseudogousa and Liturgusa,but ZIN: The Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian felt that the arrangement
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