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SUBMITTER: Marabuto E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4238084 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Biodiversity data journal 20141112 2
The recent growing interest on the Mantodea fauna of southern Europe and Portugal in particular, has enabled the discovery of two geographically separated populations of hitherto unknown species in Europe. Analysis of specimens shows that they belong to two Afrotropical mantids: Miomantiscaffra Saussure, 1871 and Miomantispaykullii Stal, 1871, thus raising the number of known species in Europe to 39 and in Portugal to 11. While these are remarkable findings, they also represent the first alien m ...[more]