Protohierodula crabbi Ross 2019 (mantis)

Insecta - Mantodea

Full reference: A. J. Ross. 2019. The Blattodea (cockroaches), Mantodea (praying mantises) and Dermaptera (earwigs) of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, including the first record of Mantodea from the UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:301-311

Belongs to Protohierodula according to A. J. Ross 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK In.17462, a forewing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection)

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