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the pne-pouch, the hood-shaped LI occupies most of the ventral wall and the left margin 

 of the dorsal wall (fig.45). The left-dorsal posterior margin of LI articulates with a small 

 sclerite on the process loa (fig.45). The right posterior margin of LI has a ribbon-like 

 extension. The phallomere-gland (P in fig.44, 45) opens into the anteriormost membranous 

 part of the pne-wall. The ventral pouch Ive (fig.46) is more tranversely extended (and less 

 antero-posteriorly as in Metallyticus and Chaeteessd). The edge along the bottom of the 

 Ive-pouch is labelled 7 in fig.46, 47. The ejaculatory duct (D in fig.46) opens into the 

 right part of Ive. Sclerite L2 extends like an arch along the margins of the dorsal wall of 

 Ive. In the anteriormost left edge of the pouch, however, it bends into the ventral wall of 

 Ive (fig.47), and from here it extends posteriad to join the left posterior end of L4. The 

 area where these posterior ends of L2 and L4 are interconnected is as a whole upcurved 

 (fig.45) and bears two short processes: the right, somewhat pointed paa, whose 

 sclerotisation belongs to L2, and the left, bulge-like pda, whose sclerotisation is part of 

 L4. The edge 1 (fig.45, 46) between the pouches pne and Ive is transversely orientated, 

 not longitudinally as in the previous species. Far to the right of paa the right posterior 

 ends of LI and L2 contact each other (articulation A2 in fig.45, 46) - exactly in the edge 

 1. Immediately to the right of A2 the invagination of the Ive-pouch - and thus also the 

 edge 1 - ends (fig. 46), and immediately to the right of this point the membranous lobe 

 afa has its base. 



The membranous ventral wall of the Ive-pouch is at the same time the anterior dorsal wall 

 of the ventral lobe via (= ventral phallomere; fig.46, 47). The ejaculatory duct (D in fig.46, 

 47) opens most anteriorly, and quite far to the right, into this membrane. The ventral wall 

 of the vla-lobe is partly sclerotised by the right posterior part of L4 (fig.41, 47). 



Right phallomere 



Sclerite R3 in the anterior ventral wall is hatched-shaped (fig.41, 44). Its anterior and right 

 margins form an age-apodeme (fig.41, 44, 45), which is distinctly groove-like in its left 

 part but more beam-like in its right part (cross-section through age in fig.43, 45). In its 

 left part age is deeper. On the utmost right posterior part of R3 the age-apodeme bears a 

 small keel-like apodeme (3 in fig.43, 44). 



The horseshoe-shaped sclerite RID lies in the ventral wall posterior to the central part of 

 R3 and sclerotises the tooth pva (fig.41, 43, 45). Posterior to the left and central parts of 

 R3 and posterior to RID the ventral wall of the right phallomere is invaginated dorsad 

 and anteriad (ehe in fig.43-45). The right posterior end of R3 articulates (A3 in fig.41, 

 44) with the ventral part of sclerite RIE. The groove called age on R3 extends beyond 



Figs. 36,37: Mantoida schmderi (Mantodea, Mantoididae) - 36: Male postabdomen in dorsal view; 

 with phallomere complex, subgenital plate, marginal parts of abdominal tergites 9 and 10, supraanal 

 lobe, epiproct, subanal lobes, paraprocts, distal part of rectum, basal parts of cerci, and part of 

 musculature. - 37: Same as in fig. 36, after removal of further parts of abdominal tergites 9 and 10, 

 parts of right paraproct, and supraanal lobe with epiproct. Distal part of rectum and basal parts of 

 cerci cut open. Another part of musculature shown. Posterior to transverse line: like in fig. 36. - Scale: 

 1mm. 



