Two new genera and two new species of Mantophasmatodea (Insecta, Polyneoptera) from Namibia

By

Wipfler, Benjamin
Pohl, Hans
Predel, Reinhard

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

166

Pages

75-98

Subjects

Lower Neoptera , Mantophasmatodea , Namibia , Pachyphasma , Polyneoptera , Striatophasma , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.166.1802

 

Abstract

Two new species and two new genera (Pachyphasma, Striatophasma) of Mantophasmatodea are described from Namibia. Pachyphasma brandbergense is endemic to the Brandberg massif; Striatophasma occupies an extensive area south of the region inhabited by Mantophasma. Phylogenetic analyses (see Predel et al. in press) suggest a sistergroup relationship of Striatophasma and the South African Austrophasmatidae.