Gonatista major

Gonatista major is a species of praying mantis native to the Caribbean and is found in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and perhaps elsewhere.[1] In comparing G. grisea and G. reticulata in 2008, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture wrote:

In general color this species is lighter than either of the preceding ones and is decidedly larger than either of them. The infuscation of the elytra is no more profuse than in grisea but is gathered in decidedly larger blotches, in this respect more like reticulata. The female is unknown to me. The measurements of the males are as follows: Length, pronotum, 13.5-14.5 mm.; elytra, 45-48 mm.[2]

— Notes on the Mantid genus Gonatista Sauss. Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Gonatista major
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Genus: Gonatista
Species:
G. major
Binomial name
Gonatista major
Caudell, 1912

See also

References
  1. THE MANTIDS OF HISPANIOLA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES (MANTODEA) by Francesco Lombardo & Daniel E. Perez-Gelabert
  2. A. N. Caudell. Notes on the Mantid genus Gonatista Sauss. Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.


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