Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916 Figs. 42–45, 165 Ischnomantis werneri Giglio-Tos, 1916: 30. Type locality. Bismarckburg, Togo. Distribution. Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Cameroon, Sudan (Beier 1968; Giglio-Tos 1916; Prost & Roy 1986; Werner 1912). Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 490). SMNK: ♁, Comoé NP, XI.1994, S. Eggers leg. (SMNK-Mant. 04798). Remarks. Ischnomantis is mainly a Sahelian genus. I. werneri is distinguished from the more northerly I. gigas (Saussure 1870) by smaller body size and the lack of an “eye-spot” on the alae. New Ivorian record.

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 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768