First Record of the Female of the Praying Mantis Mythomantis serrata (Order: Mantodea) from Sabah, Borneo

Nurain Musi; Nazirah Mustaffa; Bakhtiar Effendi Yahya

doi:10.51200/jtbc.v13i.403

First Record of the Female of the Praying Mantis Mythomantis serrata (Order: Mantodea) from Sabah, Borneo

Authors

Nurain Musi Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Nazirah Mustaffa Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Bakhtiar Effendi Yahya Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51200/jtbc.v13i.403

Keywords:

Mantodea, Mythomantis serrata, female, Borneo, taxonomy

Abstract

We present the first record of the female of Mythomantis serrata, collected from Imbak Canyon Conservation Area, Sabah. This species was described by Schwarz & Helmkampf in 2014 based on male specimens collected from Gunung Mulu, Sarawak and Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo. This species can be distinguished from the other Mythomantis species, M. confusa and M. gracilis, based on the presence of sawtooth-like lobes along the sides of the pronotum, and the concave margins of its supra-anal plate. The female individual of this species possesses similar morphological characters like those seen in males. The description of the female specimen follows Schwarz & Helmkampf (2014).

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2016-10-15

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Musi, N., Mustaffa, N., & Yahya, B. E. (2016). First Record of the Female of the Praying Mantis Mythomantis serrata (Order: Mantodea) from Sabah, Borneo. Journal of Tropical Biology & Conservation (JTBC), 13. https://doi.org/10.51200/jtbc.v13i.403

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Vol. 13 (2016): Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation No. 13/2016

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