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  • Primer Registro De Stagmomantis Limbata (Hahn) (Mantodea: Mantidae) Para Chiapas, México

    Primer Registro De Stagmomantis Limbata (Hahn) (Mantodea: Mantidae) Para Chiapas, México

    www.biotaxa.org/rce. ISSN 0718-8994 (online) Revista Chilena de Entomología (2020) 46 (2): 299-302. Nota Científica Primer registro de Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn) (Mantodea: Mantidae) para Chiapas, México First record of Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn) (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Chiapas, Mexico Andrea Santizo-Nanduca1 y Erick Hernández-Baltazar2* 1Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Ciencias en Desarrollo Sustentable y Gestión de Riesgos, Libramiento Norte Poniente N° 1150, Colonia Lajas Maciel. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México. C. P. 29000. E-mail: [email protected] 2Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Libramiento Norte Poniente N° 1150, Colonia Lajas Maciel. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México. C. P. 29000. *Autor de correspondencia: [email protected] ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: 002D2978-C0F2-4757-A50B-4B006E4FAB4E https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.46.2.20.2020 Resumen. Se reporta por primera vez a Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1835) en el estado de Chiapas, México mediante registro fotográfico. Palabras clave: Fotografía, mantis, Región Neotropical, Sima de las Cotorras. Abstract. Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1835) is reported for the first time in Chiapas, Mexico through photographic record. Key words: Mantis, Neotropical region, photography, Sima de las Cotorras. Stagmomantis Saussure, 1869 es considerado como uno de los géneros más diversos del neotrópico, cuya distribución es exclusiva de América, extendiéndose desde los Estados Unidos hasta la Patagonia en Argentina (Anderson 2019; Ehrmann y Koçak 2009). Sin embargo, el género es muy conflictivo y actualmente no hay consenso respecto de los taxones que lo componen, reportando un aproximado de 23 especies dentro del mismo (Maxwell 2014). Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1835) es un depredador de talla mediana, los machos adultos tienen generalmente una longitud corporal de 45-60 mm, mientras que las hembras 43-64 mm (Anderson 2019).