Genus Glabromantis Sjöstedt, 1918

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glabromantis Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-60, pl. 1-4 [12].

  Type species:

   Glabromantis nebulosa Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.

Introduction

Treated as a synonym of Phthersigena Stål, 1871 by Hinton (1939) following the erroneous association of a female of Glabromantis with the type species of Phthersigena (described from a male) by Giglio-Tos (1913). See Milledge (2024) for details.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

General References

Giglio-Tos, E. 1913. Orthoptera: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Perlamantiae. Genera Insectorum 144: 1-13

Hinton, H.E. 1939. Notes on Australian Mantidae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4: 282-289

Milledge, G.A. 2024. Review of the genera Glabromantis, Paraoxypilus, and Phthersigena (Mantodea: Nanomantidae: Fulciniinae). Records of the Australian Museum 76(2): 69-103 [78]

History of changes