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| Compsogusa rheae Schwarz, 2021 DOI: 10.18476/insy.v03.a2 |
Abstract
Three new species of praying mantids from the forest remnants of Panay Island, Philippines are described and illustrated. Pliacanthopus (Malayamantis) visayanus n. sp. extends the distribution of the genus, so far only known from Sundaland, to the Philippine archipelago. Compsogusa rheae n. gen. n. sp. and Theopompa schulzeorum n. sp. are bark mantids endemic to Panay. The ecological adaptations and the systematic and biogeographic affinities of the new taxa are discussed.
Family Nanomantidae Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893
Subfamily Tropidomantinae Giglio-Tos, 1915
Tribus Tropidomantini Giglio-Tos, 1915
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| Pliacanthopus (Malayamantis) visayanus n. sp.. 3. Holotype in dorsal view. – Scale bar: 10 mm. 5. Head in anterior view. 6. Foreleg in posterior view. – Scale bars: 1 mm. |
Pliacanthopus (Malayamantis) visayanus n. sp.
Etymology: named after the Visayas, the central Philippine islands.
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| Compsogusa rheae n. gen. n. sp., dorsal view. a. ♀ allotype. b. ♂ holotype. – Scale bar: 10 mm. |
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| Compsogusa rheae n. gen. n. sp., life appearance. 16. ♂, dorsolateral view. 17. ♀, dorsolateral view. 18. ♂, anterolateral view. 19. ♀, anterolateral view. |
Family Gonypetidae Westwood, 1889
Subfamily Gonypetinae Westwood, 1889
Tribus Gonypetini Westwood, 1889
Subtribus Compsomantina Giglio-Tos, 1915
Compsogusa n. gen.
Type species: Compsogusa rheae n. sp., by monotypy.
Diagnosis:
Medium-sized, slightly depressed, relatively slender, brachypterous mantids with a disruptive color pattern related to the bark-living lifestyle.
The new genus is most closely related to the Oriental genus Compsomantis Saussure, 1872. The two genera share a largely similar body shape, the smooth pronotum with its distinct pattern of paramedian markings, and the shape and color pattern of the wings. Compsogusa is, however, more elongate than Compsomantis (ratio pronotum length/width >1.9 in Compsogusa, <1.9 in Compsomantis), has a more transverse frontal shield (about two times as wide as high in Compsomantis), and a less convex vertex with more protruding juxta-ocular bulges. In Compsomantis, the widest part of the pronotum is the prozona, while it is the supracoxal dilatation in Compsogusa. The number of postero-ventral spines on the fore-tibiae overlaps: 7–9 in Compsomantis, 9–10 in Compsogusa.
Etymology: Named for the striking resemblance to both its Oriental relative Compsomantis and the unrelated Neotropical bark-living genus Liturgusa, all of which share a similar lifestyle on the stems and branches of trees and bushes (Werner 1924, Schwarz 2003, Svenson 2014).
Compsogusa rheae n. sp.
Distribution: Panay Island, Philippines.
Etymology: named after Rhea Santillan (PhilinCon), multitasking secretary, bookkeeper, and facilitator of everything, without whose generous assistance I would not have accomplished anything in the Philippines.
Subtribus Humbertiellina Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893
Theopompa schulzeorum n. sp.
Distribution: Panay Island, Philippines.
Etymology: named after Helga Schulze, Oldenburg, for her invaluable contributions to nature conservation in the Philippines and elsewhere, and after Tobias Schulze, Obermichelbach, for his numerous loans of Mantodea specimens to the scientific community over the years.
Christian Jürgen Schwarz. 2021. Three New Praying Mantises from Panay Island, Philippines (Insecta: Mantodea). Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History. 3(1); 35-56. DOI: 10.18476/insy.v03.a2
