Pliacanthopus Giglio-Tos, 1927

Genus Pliacanthopus Giglio-Tos, 1927 View in CoL

Diagnosis

Leaf-dwelling mantis. Body small-sized. Compound eyes rounded, juxtaocular bulges distinct, rounded, slightly higher than the compound eyes; cranial vertex concave; lower frons transverse, narrow. Pronotum narrow, as long as the fore coxae, metazone longer than the prozone, dorsal surface keeled along its midline. Prothoracic femora with 3 discoidal spines, 4 postero-ventral spines; prothoracic tibiae armed with unequal postero-ventral spines. Metathorax with a DK ear (see Yager and Svenson 2008), meso-and metathoracic legs slender. Fore wings narrow, hyaline except for costal field; cells large, approximately quadrilateral. Hind wings hyaline, except for apical part of costal field. Abdomen narrow; subgenital plate with styli, unequal in length in some species. Last segment of cerci elongate. Ventral phallomere of external genitalia rhomboidal, sdpl short, with acute apex.

Including species

Pliacanthopus ( Pliacanthopus) mantispoides ( Hebard, 1920) ( type locality: Malaysia: North Borneo, Sandakan); Pliacanthopus ( Malayamantis) flavus ( Giglio-Tos, 1915) ( type locality: Malaysia: Borneo ); P. ( M.) malayanus ( Beier, 1931) ( type locality: Malaysia: Selangor, Bukit Kutu ); P. ( M.) bimaculatus ( Wang, 1993) ( type locality: China: Yunnan, Jinghong ); P. ( M.) visayanus Schwarz, 2021 ( type locality: Philippines: Panay Island ); P. ( M.) tricolor sp. nov. ( type locality: China: Tibet, Medog ) .