Revision of the subfamily Oxypilinae (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae) from India

The subfamily Oxypilinae (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae) of India is revised by including two tribes, six genera, two subgenera, fourteen species and a subspecies. The genus Pseudohestiasula Schwarz & Shcherbakov, 2017 is a new record for India. Two new subgenera, Bharatestiasula subgen. nov. and Paxestiasula subgen. nov. are introduced by describing four new species and a new subspecies from the Southern Western Ghats, viz. Pseudohestiasula (Bharatestiasula) occidentalis sp. nov., P. (B.) greeni sp. nov., P. (Paxestiasula) unipunctata sp. nov., P. (P.) unipunctata obscura subsp. nov., and P. (incertae sedis) ovatasp. nov.. Pseudohestiasula (Bharatestiasula) subgen. nov. also includes P. (B.) castetsi (Bolivar, 1897) comb. nov., P. (B.) kaestneri (Beier, 1942) comb. nov. and P. (B.) masoni (Giglio-Tos, 1915) comb. nov.. The genus Catestiasula Giglio-Tos, 1915 is represented in India by a new species, Catestiasula keralensissp. nov.. The only Indian Oxypilini species Ceratomantis ghatei Roy & Svenson, 2007 is now accommodated in a new subgenus Indoceratomantissubgen. nov. as C. (I.) ghatei. In addition, Ephestiasula obscura Lombardo, 1995 and Ephestiasula woodmasoni Mukherjee, Stiewe & Ghorai, 2010 are synonymized with Hestiasula nigrofemorata Werner, 1930 syn. nov., which is transferred to the genus Ephestiasula as E.nigrofemorata (Werner, 1930) comb. nov.. Hestiasula ceylonica Beier, 1956, Hestiasulabrachyptera Villani, 2016 and Ephestiasula maculata Chatterjee, Ghorai, Srinivasan & Mukherjee, 2019 are new synonyms of Hestiasulawoodi Giglio-Tos, 1915 (syn. nov.). A dichotomous key and an updated checklist to the Indian Oxypilinae are also provided.