| Parastagmatoptera | |
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| Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata -Muséum de Toulouse | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Subclass: | Pterygota |
| Infraclass: | Neoptera |
| Superorder: | Dictyoptera |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Mantidae |
| Subfamily: | Stagmatopterinae |
| Genus: | Parastagmatoptera |
| Species | |
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15, see text |
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Parastagmatoptera is a genus consisting of 15 species of mantises in the subfamily Stagmatopterinae.[1]
Only one specimen of P. abnormis has ever been collected—a single male specimen collected in Suriname by Max Beier in 1963. A study published in 2011 strongly suggests that P. abnormis is actually a specimen of P. flavoguttata which demonstrates abnormal morphology due to infection by a horsehair worm (Nematomorpha).[2]