New Data on the Fauna, Taxonomy and Ecology of Praying Mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantodea) from Russiaстатья
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Аннотация:Two little-known species of praying mantises, Severinia turcomaniae (Saussure, 1872) and Rivetina
nana Mistshenko, 1967, are reported for the faunas of Russia and Europe for the first time based on the material
collected in Astrakhan Province of Russia. New data on the morphology, ecology, and distribution of these species
are given. The male genitalia of S. turcomaniae and the female of R. nana are described for the first time. The lectotype
of Oxythespis turcomaniae Saussure, 1872 is designated and deposited in the collection of the Zoological
Museum of the Moscow University. The synonymy of O. turcomaniae and Mantis wagneri Kittary, 1849 is shown
to be insufficiently justified; M. wagneri is provisionally placed in the genus Severinia Finot, 1902. Since R. nana
Lindt, 1968 is most probably not a synonym of R. nana Mistshenko, 1967 but a separate species, a substitute name
R. pseudonana Shcherbakov nom. n. is proposed for the former. Some characters traditionally used for the identification
of Rivetina species are shown to be significantly variable and thus unreliable. A key to 11 praying mantis
species of the Russian fauna is provided. The recent discovery of S. turcomaniae and R. nana in the northern Caspian
Sea region is assumed to reflect the expansion of the natural ranges of thermophilic species caused by increasing
aridity of the climate.