Campion callosus, Mantispidae
Workbook
from Lambkin, K.J. 1986 Aust. J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. 116, 1-142 & 117, 1-113
Head. Similar to that of tenuistriga but vertex sometimes with transverse accessory ridges.
Thorax. Pronotum sometimes with a very small, transverse, posteriorly directed ridge medially, anterior to maculae. Fore femur spine pattern as in rubellus.
Wings : costal space terminating between just before 1/2 length, and 2/3 length along IR1 cell; pterostigma much more narrow proximally than in preceding species, with distal margin nearly straight to distinctly convex; combined total of 6-12 (holotype 9) Rs branches from 1 R,, 2RI and 3R1 cells of left fore- and hindwings.
forewing Fig. 510
forewing venation
forewing venation
Forewing with pterostigma extending 0.5-0.6 length along 3RI cell; CuA with 2 branches; 1A and 2A simple; jugal lobe small, weakly developed, jugal strut obscure to distinct.
Hindwing with 2 (3 apparent) MP branches leaving iMP cell.
hindwing Fig. 511
hindwing venation
hindwing venation
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Coloration.
Head in frontal view varying from patterned with dark red-brown to black-brown and cream-yellow to yellow as in Fig. 509, to mostly cream-yellow with brown to dark brown markings as in Fig. 510; rest of vertex dark brown with a cream-yellow stripe around eye margins, or entirely cream-yellow.
Pronotum dark brown to black-brown (sometimes a little reddish) dorsally and yellow to brownish yellow ventrally, with a cream-yellow to brownish yellow dorsomedial stripe (sometimes obscure, especially posteriorly) and sometimes with a dark brown to black-brown (sometimes a little reddish) ventromedial stripe.
Pterothorax with dorsal surface longitudinally striped with dark brown to black-brown (sometimes a little reddish) and yellow (3 dark brown stripes, 2 or 4 yellow ones); pleural region greenish yellow, usually with a few small areas marked or speckled with dark brown to black-brown.
Foreleg: coxa cream-yellow to yellow, lateral face with a dark brown stripe apically; trochanter and tarsus cream-yellow to yellow; femur with lateral face cream-yellow to yellow sometimes with a small dorsoapical dark brown blotch, medial face of female cream-yellow to yellow with a large black-brown area from c. 1/3 length to just before apex, this area often speckled or pale dorsally, of male similar but with a small to large ventral yellow to brownish yellow area just distal to major spine; major spine brownish yellow, minor spines cream-yellow to yellow basally, dark brown apically; tibia cream-yellow to yellow, medial face black-brown.
Wings with pterostigmae pinkish red; otherwise as in tenuistriga.
Abdomen: pleural areas each black-brown, with ventral area from margin to just ventral to spiracle pale greenish yellow or pinkish orange; sternites and female 9th gonocoxite greenish yellow with a distinct black-brown median stripe terminating on sternite 7 of female and sternite 8 of male; tergites 2-8 of female and 2-9 of male greenish yellow to orange-yellow to pinkish orange with a broad black-brown median stripe blotched on each segment and rather reduced and narrowed on apical segments, female with ventrolateral areas of tergite 8 black-brown, tergite 9 orange-yellow to pinkish orange with ventral regions greenish yellow, posterior margin and sometimes a small posteromedial area black-brown, ectoproct orange-yellow to pinkish orange, male with hind margin of tergite 9 and sometimes of tergites 2-8 black-brown, ectoproct greenish yellow to orange-yellow, black-brown apically and dorsally.
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