Rivetina baetica
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Rivetinidae |
| Genus: | Rivetina |
| Species: | R. baetica
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| Rivetina baetica Rambur, 1839
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| Range of Rivetina baetica Extant (resident)
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Rivetina baetica, commonly known as the Baetic ground mantis, is a species of praying mantis in the family Rivetinidae.[2]
Description
[edit]The Baetic ground mantis is a camouflaged, slightly ruddy, greyish-brown species, with large, prominent eyes. It antennae, which are shorter than its body, are yellowish. Males' antennae are far thicker than females'.[4]
Distribution
[edit]The Baetic ground mantis is found around the Mediterranean basin, in North Africa and Southern Europe, and in parts eastwards: in Iran, southern Russia, and Central Asia.[5][6]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species has a complicated taxonomic history.
Rivetina baetica was first classified as Mantis bætica when a French entomologist, Jules Pierre Rambur, described it from Andalusia near Málaga in 1839.[4] Next, the species was moved to the genus Iris, subgenus Fischeria by Henri de Saussure in 1869; Fischeria was later raised to full genus level.[7][6] In 1916, Ermanno Giglio-Tos identified that Fischeria baetica was the same species as a previously (and incompletely) described species, Mantis fasciata; he gave the latter taxon priority in his synonymy. Finally, in 1922, Lucien Berland and Lucien Chopard renamed Saussure's genus (Fischeria) Rivetina, since Fischeria shared its name with a fly genus.[8][9][3][10][11] The same year, Giglio-Tos sent a work classifying the two species he had identified as the same, baetica and fasciata, into his own new genus Eufishceriella, to his publishers. However, the work's publication was delayed to 1927, so the genus name Rivetina remains valid due to its age.[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Battiston, R. (2020). "Rivetina baetica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44792855A44798484. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T44792855A44798484.en. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ a b Catalogue of Life: 2009 Annual Checklist
- ^ a b Kirby, W. F. (1904). A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. 1. London: Taylor and Francis.
- ^ a b Rambur, Pierre (1837). Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie: Deux forts volumes in octavo accompagnés de 50 planches (in French). Bertrand. pp. 19–20.
- ^ Kolnegari, Mahmood (2023-09-25). Mantodea of Iran: A review-based study. Pensoft Publishers.
- ^ a b Preudhomme de Borre, Alfred (1864). "Liste de Mantides du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique. Vol. t.26-27 (1882-1883). Bruxelles: Société entomologique de Belgique. p. 71.
- ^ Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.; Genève, Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de (1871). Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Vol. t.21:pt.1-2 (1871-1872). Geneve: Georg [etc.]
- ^ Wytsman, P.; Wytsman, P.; Townsend, Lee Hill; Wytsman, P. (1902). Genera insectorum. Vol. 196–203. Bruxelles: L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.]
- ^ Berland, Lucien; Chopard, Lucien (1922). "Travaux scientifiques de l'armée d'Orient (1916–1918). Orthoptères". Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Vol. t.28 (1922). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
- ^ "synonym Fischeria Saussure, 1869: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
- ^ a b Ehrmann, Reinhard (2011). "Mantodea from Turkey and Cyprus (Dictyoptera: Mantodea)" (PDF). Articulata. 36 (1): 21–3.
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