Photina Burmeister, 1838

Agudelo, Antonio A. & Rivera, Julio, 2015, Some taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in American Mantodea (Insecta, Dictyoptera) — Part I, Zootaxa 3936 (3), pp. 335-356 : 345

Photina Burmeister, 1838

As in the previous Tithrone species, Tithrone catharinensis also was classified in the wrong genus ( Piza, 1961). The female holotype (from Pinhal, Santa Catharina state, Brazil), also deposited at ESALQ, was found to be a member of Photina Burmeister, 1838 ( Fig. 7 a). Further analyses of this material and the holotype of Photina laevis Giglio- Tos, 1915 (from the same locality) ( Fig. 7 b), the latter recently recognized as the female of P. vitrea by Agudelo (2014b), revealed T. catharinensis also as conspecific to P. vitrea .

The complete list of synonyms known for this species is as follows:

Photina vitrea ( Burmeister, 1838)

Mantis ( Photina) vitrea Burmeister, 1838 = Mantis pellucida Serville, 1839

= Mantis longicornis Charpentier, 1841

= Cardioptera translucida Saussure, 1869 = Cardioptera [ Mantis ( Photina) ] vitrea ( Burmeister, 1838) = Photina gracilis Giglio-Tos, 1915

= Photina laevis Giglio-Tos, 1915

= Tithrone catharinensis Piza,1961 n . syn.

Figures

FIGURE 7. New synonyms of Photina vitrea: a) holotype ♀ of Tithrone catharinensis (ESALQ); b) Holotype ♀ of Photina laevis (ZMB).