Species Paraoxypilus verreauxii Saussure, 1870

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraoxypilus verreauxii Saussure, H. de 1870. Additions au système des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 3: 221-244 [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP adult (depository uncertain), TAS
  Comment: Type locality is almost certainly incorrect and based on mislabelled holotype, no further specimens collected from TAS, see Connors (2023).

  Type locality references:

  Connors, M.G. 2023. Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist. Zootaxa 5239(4): 477-499 [479].
• Exparoxypilus africanus Beier, M. 1929. Einige neue Mantiden aus der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Zoologischer Anzeiger 80: 129-133.

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Bagamoyo, Tanzania
  Comment: Holotype probably mislabelled with incorrect location, see Connors (2023).

  Type locality references:

  Connors, M.G. 2023. Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist. Zootaxa 5239(4): 477-499 [479].
• Paraoxypilus verrauxii Wood-Mason, J. 1889. A Catalogue of Mantodea with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, and an enumeration of the specimens in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. No. 1. Calcutta : Indian Museum 48 pp. [subsequent misspelling].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Connors, M.G. 2023. Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist. Zootaxa 5239(4): 477-499

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern coastal QLD to north-eastern NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant, female flightless*.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	MANTODEA	25-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)