Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier 1963

Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963 Fig. 28 Mantis flavoguttata Audinet-Serville, 1838: 183–184. Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963: 10. Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata – Lombardo & Umbriaco 2011: 31–34 (syn.). Type material Holotype (1 male) SURINAME • ♂ (Fig. 28); “// Type // Surinam / ex. Coll. Fruhstorfer // Parastagmat. / abnormis / n. sp. / det. Beier / Type! ♂ // H. Fruhstorfer / vend. 6.III.1898. // P. flavoguttata / DET / LOMB.-UMB. 2010 // Parastagmatoptera [Mantis] flavoguttata / (Audinet-Serville, 1838): #10, 183–184 / syn. nov. Parastagmatoptera abnormis / Beier, 1963: 10 – Holotypus ♂ / Lombardo & Umbriaco, 2011: 31–34. / Gen.-Präparat, getrocknet, / F. Lombardo, IX.2009 – XII.2010 ”; ZMH 841104. Type locality Suriname. Current status Synonym of Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata (Audinet-Serville, 1838). Habitus Complete. Genitalia were prepared after the images were taken. Remarks Lombardo and Umbriaco discuss the fact that the present specimen is parasitized by a horsehair worm (Nematomorpha) and justify, based on morphological features, that it is an intersexual individual, i.e., that it bears intermediate rather than sex-specific characteristics, especially the wings and ocelli (Lombardo & Umbriaco 2011).