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            <p> Hierodula patellifera daitoana ssp. nov. Figs 2, 3, 5, 7 </p>
            <p>Type material.</p>
            <p>- Holotype: Japan • ♂; Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Kita-daito-jima Is., Kita-daito-son, Minato; 25°57'16"N, 131°17'17"E; 24 Jun. 2018; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00001. Paratypes: Japan • 1♂, 2♀; (collected as nymphs); Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Kita-daito-jima Is., Kita-daito-son, Minato; 25°57'19"N, 131°17'16"E; 25-26 Oct. 2016; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00002-00004 • 2♂; Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Kita-daito-jima Is., Kita-daito-son, Minato; 25°57'16"N, 131°17'17"E; 24-25 Jun. 2018; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00005-00006 • 2♂, 2♀ (collected as nymphs); Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Kita-daito-jima Is., Kita-daito-son, Minato; 25°57'19"N, 131°17'16"E; 24-26 Jun. 2018; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00007-00010 • 1♂ (collected as nymph); Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Minami-daito-jima Is., Minami-daito-son, Kita; 25°51'59"N, 131°14'50"E; 17 Feb. 2015; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00011 • 1♀ (collected as nymph); Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Minami-daito-jima Is., Minami-daito-son, Kita; 25°51'58"N, 131°14'50"E; 16 Apr. 2016; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00012 • 1♀ (collected as nymph); Okinawa, Shimajiri-gun, Minami-daito-jima Is., Minami-daito-son, Ikenosawa; 25°49'12"N, 131°13'18"E; 17 Apr. 2016; K. Oshima leg.; LETUA-IC-2021-00013.</p>
            <p>Subspecies characters.</p>
            <p> -Adult: Differs from the nominotypical subspecies  H. patellifera patellifera by having the following characters: Body length 64-77 mm in males, 69-79 mm in females; antenna at most 115-segmented in both sexes; procoxa (Fig. 4A, B) with a large white marking along dorsal-inner surface (white marking may become unclear in dry specimens), and with 2 large and several small tooth-like marginal spines (not well-defined). Nymph: Procoxa of 1st- and 2nd-instars (Fig. 5A, B) lacking white markings and marginal spines; procoxa of 3rd instar (Fig. 5C) with or without a small white marking, and with slightly developed, tooth-like marginal spines; procoxa of 4th instar (Fig. 5D) with 2 small, white markings and with slightly developed, tooth-like marginal spines; procoxa of 5th instar (Fig. 5E) with 2 medium-sized, irregular, white markings and with 2 large (somewhat developed) and several small tooth-like marginal spines; procoxa of 6th- to last-instars (Fig. 5F-H) with a large-sized and irregular white marking and with 2 large (well developed) and several small tooth-like marginal spines. </p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>-Kita-daito-jima Is. and Minami-daito-jima Is., the Ryukyus, Japan.</p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p>-This subspecific name is named after the Daito Islands, the type locality of the subspecies; an adjective.</p>
            <p>Ecology.</p>
            <p> -During my surveys, adults and nymphs appeared from May to July and in all seasons, respectively. Both adults and nymphs were found in grassland adjacent to a sugarcane field (Fig. 6) and forest edges, particularly on the bushy tree  Acalypha wilkesiana Müll . Arg. (  Euphorbiaceae ). Some specimens were also found in a residential area. Oothecae were laid on twigs and trunks as well as on artificial objects (Fig. 7). </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A9C982C7D530558F90FD7643915840AA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Oshima, Kazuyuki	Oshima, Kazuyuki (2021): A new subspecies of the mantis Hierodula patellifera (Mantodea: Mantidae) from the Daito Islands, the Ryukyus, Japan. Journal of Orthoptera Research 30 (1): 95-98, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.62022, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.62022
