Pseudoyersinia brevipennis (Yersin, 1860:511)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mantis brevipennis Yersin, 1860:511 (original combination); Ameles brevipennis (Yersin, 1860:511); Yersinia brevipennis (Yersin, 1860:511)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Voisin, 2003 fide Fontaine et al., 2007; Battiston, 2020)
Last record: pre-1860 (source); 1860 (Battiston, 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Known only from the holotype (fide La Greca, 1983) or holotype and allotype (fide Ehrmann, 2002) from Hyeres Island (Insel Hyères), France. The population on Sardinia/Sicily may or may not be of this species (La Greca, 1983). Further investigation is required, though this may already have been carried out since 1983 (e.g. Ehrmann, 2002?).
Distribution
France (& Sardinia/Sicily?)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Known only from the holotype (fide La Greca, 1983) or holotype and allotype (fide Ehrmann, 2002) from Hyeres Island (Insel Hyères), France.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Yersin, M. A. (1860). Note sur quelques orthoptères nouveaux ou peu connus d'Europe. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.) (3) 8: 509-537.
Other references:
Battiston, R. (2020). Pseudoyersinia brevipennis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T44792108A44798207. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T44792108A44798207.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Battiston, R., Picciau, L., Fontana, P. and Marshall, J. (2010). Mantids of the Euro-Mediterranean Area. WBA Handbooks, 2, Verona: 1-240.
Burr, Malcolm. (1904). Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 12: 116-121,182-186,229-231,317-323, etc.
Ehrmann, Reinhard. (2002). Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen de Welt. Natur und Tier – Verlag, Münster. 519 pp, 194 colour photographs, 56 drawings. [English translation of title: A complete catalogue of mantids of the world.
Fontaine, B., Bouchet, P., Van Achterberg, K., Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A., Araujo, R., Asche, M., Aspöck, U. Audisio, P., Aukema, B., Bailly, N., Balsamo, M., Bank, R.A., Barnard, P., Belfiore, C., Bogdanowicz, W., Bongers, T., Boxshall, G., Burckhardt, D., Camicas, J.-L., Chylarecki, P., Crucitti, P., Deharveng, L., Dubois, A., Enghoff, H., Faubel, A., Fochetti, R., Gargominy, O., Gibson, D., Gibson, R., Soledad Gómez López, M., Goujet, D., Harvey, M.S., Heller, K.-G., Van Helsdingen, P., Hoch, H., De Jong, H., De Jong, Y., Karsholt, O., Los, W., Lundqvist, L., Magowski, W., Manconi, R., Martens, J. Massard, J.A., Massard-Geimer, G., Mcinnes, S. J., Mendes, L. F., Mey, E., Michelsen, V., Minelli, A., Nielsen, C., Nieto Nafría, J. M., Van Nieukerken, E. J., Noyes, J., Pape, T., Pohl, H., De Prins, W., Ramos, M., Ricci, C., Roselaar, C., Rota, E., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Segers, H., Zur Strassen, R., Szeptycki, A., Thibaud, J.-M., Thomas, A., Timm, T., Van Tol, J., Vervoort, W. and Willmann, R. (2007). The European Union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus. Biological Conservation 139(1-2): 167-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012
La Greca, Marcello. (1983). Il contributo degli Ortotteri e dei Mantodei alla conocenza della biogeografia di Sardegna. Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography 8(1): 557-575. [p. 566-567]
Giglio-Tos, E. (1927). Orthoptera. Mantidae. Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig. 50, 707 p.
Lombardo F. (1984). Pseudoyersinia lagrecai, nuova specie di mantodeo di Sicilia . Animalia 12( 1-3): 23-29.
Luchetti, A., Castellucci, F., Corneti, S. et al. (2024). Multilocus phylogenetics of Palearctic Amelini shed light on the long-standing taxonomic puzzle of the dwarf-mantises Ameles, Pseudoyersinia, and Apteromantis. Org. Divers. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-024-00667-6
Patel, Shveta and Singh, Rajendra. (2016). Updated Checklist and Distribution of Mantidae (Mantodea: Insecta) of the World. International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology (IJRSZ) 2(4): 17-54. [p. 22; from France & Sicily]
Saussure, H. (1870). Addition au Système des Mantides. Mitteilungen Schweizer Entomologie Gesellschaft, 3(5): 221-244.
Voisin, J.-F. (ed.). (2003). Atlas des orthopteres et des mantides de France [French; abstract English]. pp. 1-104. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1183418
https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/65836/tab/fiche
https://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/fiche.php?ref=29533 [photo of type specimen]