Oligonyx maya
| Oligonyx maya | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Thespidae |
| Tribe: | Oligonychini |
| Subtribe: | Oligonychina |
| Genus: | Oligonyx |
| Species: | O. maya |
| Binomial name | |
| Oligonyx maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Harpagonyx maya | |
Oligonyx maya is a species of mantid in the family Thespidae[1][2] which inhabits dry, tropical forests in the northwest of Yucatán, Mexico.[3]
O. maya is a light brown mantid with darker brown mottling. The type specimen, a male was 37−38 mm long.[3]
It was described in 1894 by the Swiss entomologist Henri de Saussure and the Swiss naturalist Leo Zehntner as Harpagonyx maya based on a male specimen collected from Temax.[4] The damaged type specimen (now minus its abdomen) is held at the Natural History Museum in London.[3][5]
References
- 1 2 Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "Oligonyx maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894". Mantodea Species File Online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ↑ "Oligonyx maya". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- 1 2 3 Kris, Anderson (2025). "Taxonomic Revision of Genus Oligonyx Saussure, 1869 (Mantodea: Thespidae: Thespinae: Thespini)". Soothsayer. 6 (1). doi:10.5281/zenodo.15333469. Archived from the original on 2025-05-27.
- ↑ De Saussure, Henri; Zehntner, Leo; Pictet, A. (1893–1899). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 1. Insecta. Orthoptera. London: R.H. Porter. p. 176.
- ↑ Marshall, J.A. (1975). "A catalog of the primary types of Mantodea Dictyoptera in the British Museum of Natural History". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 31: 307–329.
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