Subspecies Archimantis latistyla latistyla (Serville, 1838)

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• Mantis latistylus Serville, J.G. Audinet 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret 776 pp. [179] [name subsequently emended to latistyla by Giglio-Tos, E. 1911. Mantidi Esotici. v. Mantes, Tenoderae, Hierodulae, Rhomboderae. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 43: 3–167 (164)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀ adults, Australia, locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Giglio-Tos, E. 1912. Mantidi Esotici. V. Mantes, Tenoderae, Hierodulae et Rhomboderae. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 43(1911): 1-167.
• Mantis fuscielytris McCoy, F. 1886. Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, or, figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. London : Trübner & Co. Vol. 2 Decade 13 pp. 79-118. [118].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV 2♀ adults, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Balderson, J. 1984. Catalogue of Australian Mantodea. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 23: 1-17 [7]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant, female flightless.

 

General References

Coombs, M. 1994. Seasonality and host relationships of insects associated with oothecae of Archimantis latistyla (Serville) (Mantodea: Mantidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33: 295-298

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)