A new species of Margaromantis Piza, 1982 (Insecta: Mantodea) from Brazil

We perform phylogenetic analyses of the 'polymorphic earless praying mantises', a heterogeneous assemblage comprising c. 55% of mantodean diversity in the Neotropics. Bayesian and maximum-likelihood were implemented on a DNA dataset of 9949 aligned nucleic acid characters comprising ten mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Our analyses largely resolved congruent relationships with high levels of support for higher-level taxonomic groups, but revealed extensive inconsistencies between the resolved topology and morphology-based classification systems. The polymorphic earless praying mantises, now granted superfamily status as the Acanthopoidea stat.n., comprises 8 families, 15 subfamilies and 18 tribes. Our newly revised organization required the following taxonomic changes: (i) Thespidae sensu n., including subfamilies Pseudopogonogastrinae subfam.n., Pseudomiopteryginae sensu n., Bantiinae subfam.n., Miobantiinae sensu n. and Thespinae sensu n. (tribes Musoniellini trib.n. and Thespini sensu n.); (ii) Angelidae stat.n. et sensu n.; (iii) Coptopterygidae stat.n.; (iv) Liturgusidae sensu n.; (v) Photinaidae stat.n., including Macromantinae stat.n., Cardiopterinae stat.n., Photiomantinae subfam.n. and Photinainae sensu n. (tribes Microphotinini trib.n., Orthoderellini stat.n. and Photinaini sensu n.); (vi) Stenophyllidae stat.n.; (vii) Acontistidae stat.n.; and (viii) Acanthopidae sensu n. Our new system also resulted in the reassignment of various genera to new and existing higher-level taxa, the exclusion of old world genera otherwise traditionally classified among the Thespidae, Liturgusidae and Angelidae, the confirmation of Stenophylla Westwood as member of this clade, and the revalidation of Paradiabantia Piza stat.r. We provide diagnoses for all suprageneric taxa using external morphological characters and male genitalia. A key to higher-level groups is provided. We incorporate egg case structural variation as a novel approach for taxon delineation.This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid: zoobank.

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“…Restricted to northeastern Brazil, associated with seasonal, semi‐arid habitats (Menezes et al , ; Menezes & Bravo, ).…”

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The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

Rivera

Svenson

2016

Systematic Entomology

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“…Photiomantis is a small genus with only two valid species for Northeastern Brazil, but with a complicated taxonomic history due to many erroneous nomenclatural procedures (KOçaK & Kemal 2008;ÖzdiKmen 2008;rivera 2010a;agudelO & rivera 2015;rivera & SvenSOn 2020). Both species of the genus have a huge temporal disparity of a hundred years between each other, Photiomantis planicephala (Rehn, 1916) and Photiomantis nigrolineata (Menezes & Bravo, 2015), and the comparison with both descriptions (rehn 1916;menezeS & BravO 2015) made clear that the specimen in the collection is P. planicephala.…”

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On the transference of the mantids collection (Insecta, Mantodea) from the Entomological Collection of Instituto Butantan to the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021

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Brazil is one of the most diverse countries in the world, hosting more than 250 known species of mantids (Mantodea). Studying natural history collections is crucial to identify, describe new taxa and solve taxonomic issues, improving the knowledge about the biodiversity. Here we document the transference of the mantids collection from the Entomological Collection of Instituto Butantan (São Paulo, Brazil) to the Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and provide a morphological assessment on the 33 transferred mantids. We recognized 13 genera and 12 species, with diversified distribution in Brazil, although 6 specimens from 4 genera could not be identified at a specific level. The transference of this collection starts a new phase of restructuration and recognition of the Medical Entomology scope of the donor collection, aside from helping the rebuilt of the Entomological Collection of the Museu Nacional, lost in the 2018 fire, and allowing further researches within the group.

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“…Acanthopinae includes some of the most cryptic and bizarrelooking mantids of the neotropics [51]. The Acanthopidae are widely distributed from central Mexico south to the Atlantic rainforest of southern Brazil [52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. The member of the family Amorphoscelidae, commonly known as bark mantids, are small to medium in size, mostly with cryptic colour of tree-bark and some mimic ants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Updated Checklist and Global Diversity of Chaeteessidae, Mantoididae, Metallyticidae, Acanthopidae, Amorphoscelididae and Sibyllidae (Mantodea: Insecta)

Patel¹,

Singh²

2016

International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology

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The praying mantids (Order Mantodea, Class Insecta) are a group of over 2500 carnivorous polyneopteran insects distributed in tropics and subtropics of the world, from the rainforest to the desert ground. The order Mantodea comprises over 20 families, out of which the global distribution of six families: Chaeteessidae, Mantoididae, Metallyticidae, Acanthopidae, Amorphoscelididae and Sibyllidae were provided in this compilation. Chaeteessidae includes just one extant genus with 6 species and Mantoididae comprises two genera with 12 species and both are distributed in Neotrpical South America. Metallyticidae includes just one genus containing 5 species inhabiting in Southeast Asia. Acanthopidae, commonly known as dead-leaf mantids or boxer mantids, consists of 14 genera and 96 species and are exclusively distributed in Neotropics of South America. It includes 3 subfamilies, Acanthopinae (8 genera, 53 species), Acontistinae (5 genera, 40 speies), and Stenophyllinae (1 genus, 3 species). Amorphoscelidae, commonly known as bark mantids, are includes three subfamilies, Amorphoscelinae (5 genera, 62 species), Paraoxypilinae (8 genera, 30 species), and Perlamantinae (2 genera, 3 species) with 15 genera and 95 species/subspecies distributed in the Tropical and Southern regions of Africa over to the Middle East and the Oriental region, including New Guinea. Sibyllidae is exclusively African family including only three genera and 17 species.

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A new species of Margaromantis Piza, 1982 (Insecta: Mantodea) from Brazil

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The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

On the transference of the mantids collection (Insecta, Mantodea) from the Entomological Collection of Instituto Butantan to the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Updated Checklist and Global Diversity of Chaeteessidae, Mantoididae, Metallyticidae, Acanthopidae, Amorphoscelididae and Sibyllidae (Mantodea: Insecta)

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