''Chlorocalis maternaschulzei''Vermeersch XHC, Stiewe MBD, Shcherbakov E (2019) A new genus of praying mantis, ''Chlorocalis'' n. gen., with two new species from the Greater Mekong region (Mantodea: Mantidae) ''Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.)'' Page: 10, DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2018.1562380. is a species of

praying mantis Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate ...

in the family

Mantidae Mantidae is one of the largest family (biology), families in the Order (biology), order of Mantodea, praying mantises, based on the type species ''Mantis religiosa''; most genera are tropical or subtropical. Historically, this was the only family ...

and

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

Hierodulini.Mantodea Species File: species ''Chlorocalis maternaschulzei'' Stiewe, Vermeersch & Shcherbakov, 2019 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 29 July 2020)
/ref> Records of this species are from the

seasonal tropical forest Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon forest, typically contains a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season. This tropic ...

s of Thailand and Vietnam; the type specimen is from

Nakhon Ratchasima Nakhon Ratchasima (, ) is the capital of Nakhon Ratchasima province, the largest city in Isan, Northeastern Thailand and the List of municipalities in Thailand#Largest cities by urban population, third-largest city in Thailand. It is 250 km (1 ...

Province.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q97819918 Hierodulinae Mantodea of Southeast Asia Insects described in 2019