Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915 Figs. 15–19, 22–23 Parentella major Giglio-Tos, 1915: 177. = Ligaria senegalensis Roy, 1962: 94–97, Figs 2–4, pl. 1, Fig. a. Type localities. (P. m.) Cameroon; (L. s.) Niokolo-Koba, Senegal. Distribution. Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Cameroon (Giglio-Tos 1915c; Gillon & Roy 1968; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a, 1967, 1969, 1970b, 1971b, 1975, 1978; Roy & Leston 1975). Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 324); ♀, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–01.VI.2019, M. Pohl leg. Remarks. Terricolous taxon widely distributed across the Sudan savanna belt. Females deposit the oothecae underground with the help of a digging device (Fig. 23) evolved at the tips of the gonapophyses VIII (Chroicoptera type, Wieland 2013).

Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768