The family Angelidae (Insecta, Mantodea) in Mexico and Central America, new records and two new synonyms

By

De Luna, Manuel
Hernández-Baltazar, Erick
Cubillos Macías, Iker

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-7-15

Original Publication

Journal of orthoptera research : JOR

Volume

33

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

229--232

Subjects

Angela championi , Angela miranda , Angela perpulchra natural history collections taxo

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Philadelphia, Penn Orthopterists' Society 1992-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.114799

 

Abstract

The stick-like mantis Angela miranda Saussure, 1871 (Mantodea, Angelidae) is newly recorded for the state of Chiapas in Mexico as well as for the department of Izabal in Guatemala, and the female is newly described. A re-examination of material from the Colección Nacional de Insectos (CNIN) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) labeled as Angela miranda and recorded from Tabasco, Mexico, was conducted, revealing that they were misidentified, belonging instead to the genus Phasmomantis Saussure, 1869 (Mantidae: Stagmomantinae). Finally, Angela perpulchra Westwood, 1889 and Angela championi Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 are hereby relegated as junior synonyms of Angela miranda.