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| Euchomenella kasetsart Unnahachote, Samung & Jaitrong, 2020 ตั๊กแตนตำข้าวคอยาวเกษตรศาสตร์ biosoil.ru |
A new species, Euchomenella kasetsart sp. n., is described based on the male and female collected from Nakhon Pathom Province, central Thailand. The new species can be easily distinguished from other Oriental congeners by the smaller pronotal proportion.
Key words: mantises, Deroplatyinae, Euchomenellini, taxonomy, new species, Oriental Region.
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| Fig. 1. Euchomenella kasetsart sp. n., dorsal view. A – holotype male; B – paratype female. |
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| Fig. 6. Live specimen of Euchomenella kasetsart sp. n., paratype female (RBINS, IG:34.123). |
TAXONOMY
Family Deroplatyidae Westwood, 1889
Subfamily Deroplatyinae Westwood, 1889
Tribe Euchomenellini Giglio-Tos, 1916
Genus Euchomenella Giglio-Tos, 1916
Euchomenella kasetsart Unnahachote, Samung et Jaitrong, sp. n.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Both sexes of the new species have distinctly smaller body lengths and ratios of MzL/PzL than the other known Euchomenella species: MzL/PzL 4.15–4.26 in the female and 3.76 in the male for Euchomenella kasetsart sp. n., compared with at least 4.9–5.4 for all other Oriental species.
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DISTRIBUTION. This species has been known only from the type locality (Fig. 7).
ETYMOLOGY. The specific name is after the type locality, Kasetsart University, Kasetsart University Kamphaeng Saen Campus, central Thailand.
T. Unnahachote, Y. Samung and W. Jaitrong. 2020. A New Species of the Praying Mantis Genus Euchomenella Giglio-Tos, 1916 (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) from Thailand. Far Eastern Entomologist. 419: 18-28. biosoil.ru/Files/FEE/00002021.pdf
