Fig. 6. Vates phoenix sp. nov., female morphology (both specimens are from Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro), and head morphology of Vates spp. A. Head, frontal view, allotype (MNRJ-ENT6-28442). – B–C. Variation in ocellar tubercles (not to scale). B. Allotype (collected in 2018; MNRJ-ENT6-28442). C. Paratype (collected in 1935; MNRJ-ENT6-28455). – D. Pronotum, dorsal view, allotype (MNRJENT6-28442). – E–H. Mid- and hind legs, allotype (MNRJ-ENT6-28442). E. Mid-femur, detail of distal section. F. Hind femur, detail of distal section. G. Mid-tibia. H. Hind tibia. – I. Vates biplagiata Sjöstedt, 1930, head, frontal view (male specimen from Peru). J. Vates weyrauchi Beier, 1958, head, frontal view (male specimen from Peru). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; D–H = 5 mm.

Published as part of Rivera, Julio, Herculano, João Felipe, Lanna, Leonardo Moutinho, Cavalcante, Sávio & Teixeira, Maria Lúcia França, 2020, A new species and first record of Vates Burmeister, 1838 from the Atlantic Rainforest (Mantodea: Vatinae), pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 598 on page 14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.598, http://zenodo.org/record/3659604