Revision of the Neotropical bark mantis genus Liturgusa Saussure, 1869... 1 Revision of the Neotropical bark mantis genus Liturgusa

The praying mantis genus Liturgusa Saussure, 1869 occurs only in Central and South America and rep-resents the most diverse genus of Neotropical Liturgusini (Ehrmann 2002). The genus includes bark dwelling species, which live entirely on the trunks and branches of trees and run extremely fast. All species included within the genus Liturgusa are comprehensively revised with a distribution stretching from cen-tral Mexico, the island of Dominica to the southeastern regions of Brazil and southern Bolivia. All known species are redescribed to meet the standards of the new treatment of the genus (11 species). Three ne