Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960 Figs. 168–169, 181–182 Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960: 250–253, Figs 6, 15–16, 26, 33, 43–44, 54. = Mantis pia Audinet-Serville, 1838: 193. = Mantis capensis Saussure, 1872: 46–47. = Mantis religiosa var. major Gerstaecker, 1873: 12. Type localities. (M. r. e.) Livingstone, Zambia; (M. p.) Cape region, RSA; (M. c.) Cape region, RSA. Distribution. Africa south of the Sahara (Berg et al. 2011). Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12. V.2017, M. Pohl leg. Remarks. The “European” Mantis is much less common in tropical habitats than in subtropical and temperate parts of its extensive range (Siberia to Cape region, Portugal to Timor, introduced in the USA: Berg et al. 2011, Anderson 2018).

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 page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768