Compsothespis Saussure, 1873 Compsothespis australiensis Wood-Mason, 1889 Described from a single specimen collected in “northern Australia ” by Westwood (Wood-Mason 1889; Tindale 1923), this species has not been recorded since.All other members of the subfamily are restricted to Africa (Balderson 1984; Schwarz & Roy 2019), and as Westwood collected widely it is almost certain that the specimen is mislabelled. I conclude that the specimen was almost certainly also collected in Africa and hence that the species is not found in Australia. It is here removed from the Australian list.

Published as part of Connors, Matthew G., 2023, Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist, pp. 477-499 in Zootaxa 5239 (4) on page 480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7635154