Common Brown Mantis Rhodomantis disparilis (Westwood, 1889)
Fauna Portal species: 2418
Rhodomantis disparilis female, dorsal (HBI N2429-15; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Caroline Harding, Museum Victoria (2009)
Fauna Portal Image No. 13700Diagnosis
(after Milledge 2014; under R. pulchella): Males of this species can be distinguished from others in the genus by being only slightly brachypterous and by the genitalia having the combination of compact pa and elongate spiniform dpr. Females can be distinguished from those of R. rentzi and R. micoptera by having the tegmina reaching the caudal margin of the second abdominal tergite and from R. macula by the possession of apical hooks on the ventral lobes of the ovipositor.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2014): A revision of Rhodomantis Giglio-Tos, 1917 (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae). Zootaxa. 3797: 39 - 64DOI
(2014): On the identity of Thespis disparilis Westwood, 1889 (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae). Zootaxa. 3869: 198 - 200DOI