Revision of the generaNemothaWood-Mason, 1884 andTricondylomimusChopard, 1930 stat. rev., with description of a new species (Dictyoptera: Mantodea)

A novel form of wasp mimicry in a new species of praying mantis from the Amazon rainforest,Vespamantoida wherleyigen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)

“…The most profound aspect of the discovery of V. wherleyi is the high degree of similarity it has, both morphologically and behaviorally, with hymenopteran wasps. Although a number of non-mantoididae praying mantis taxa have been documented to exhibit some degrees of ant mimicry in nymphal stages, and more rarely, in wingless adult females (Milledge, 1990; Agudelo & Rafael, 2014), only one enigmatic species from Southeast Asia, N. metallica , has been suspected of exhibiting wasp mimicry based on its unique color pattern (Stiewe & Shcherbakov, 2017). The Mantoididae family, on the other hand, includes both nymph and winged adult mimics of hymenopterans (ants and wasps, respectively), which includes a generalized hymenopteran body shape and the presence of a wasp waist (Jackson & Drummond, 1974; Deyrup, 1986; Agudelo, 2014).…”

“…Although the name would suggest mimicry of the beetle genus Tricondyla Latreille, 1822, the Southeast Asian mantis genus Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930, together with the beetles could be mimicking a sympatric species of ant. Adult praying mantis mimicry of a wasp has been suggested for only one species based solely on its unique yellow and black coloration pattern, Nemotha metallica Westwood, 1845 (Stiewe & Shcherbakov, 2017). By far, ant mimicry in nymphs is the dominant pattern for hymenopteran mimicry in praying mantises, but adults mimicking wasps is barely present and certainly not studied.…”

Dracomantis Mirofraternus Gen. Et Sp. N., a New Genus and Species of Hierodulinae (Mantodea: Mantidae) From Vietnam

“…Vietnam harbours a very rich but still poorly studied Mantodea fauna, with many new taxa that were only very recently discovered and described (Stiewe & Shcherbakov, 2017;Shcherbakov, 2017;Schwarz et al, 2018;Vermeersch, 2018aVermeersch, , 2018bVermeersch et al, 2019). The description here presented of a new genus and species from the Vietnamese Central Highlands emphasises once again the huge gaps in our knowledge of extant Mantodea taxa.…”

First report of the genus Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930 (Mantodea, Gonypetidae) from India with a note on its geographical distribution

“…The images were post-processed using Adobe Photoshop ® CS6 software. The key of the genus Tricondylomimus provided by Stiewe and Shcherbakov (2017) is used for the identification of the species. The morphological terminology follows Brannoch et al (2017).…”

“…Otte and Spearmann (2005) mentioned Tricondylomimus as a synonym of Nemotha Wood-Mason, 1884 by following Beier (1935) and listed the genus under the family Iridopterygidae Giglio-Tos, 1915 in their Mantodea catalogue. Stiewe and Shcherbakov (2017) removed the synonymization of Tricondylomimus with Nemotha and accepted it as a valid genus. Schwarz and Roy (2019) placed the genus in the family Gonypetidae.…”