Anyone Know the Seventh Species?

[batsofchaos]

I've been tentatively planning a mantid-hunting trip for mid-to-late summer next year in the lower, warmer climbs of Colorado so I've been researching the different species of mantid that have been found in Colorado. I have read in numerous sources that there are seven species of mantid native to Colorado. In each of those sources they have then listed the species and where to find them:

Stagomantis carolina (found on the south-eastern plains)

Stagomantis californica (found on the southern part of the western slope)

Yersiniops solitarium (south-eastern plains)

Litaneutria minor (south-eastern plains)

Mantis religiosa (excluding the mountains, pretty much anywhere)

Tenodera sinesis (home gardens; our winters are too cold so they generally wouldn't be in CO without consistent human introduction)

Notice what's missing? The seventh species! I can't find it anywhere. I'm thinking it might be S. limbata on the south-western part of the state where it might as well be Arizona, or maybe P. arizonae in the same part (or P. chlorophaea in the south-east?). It's driving me mad, or at least annoyed. Does anyone know?

 

[sbugir]

From the CU Entomology Professor http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/insect/05510.html

 

[batsofchaos]

That was one of the sources I found; that one said 'at least six,' while other sources listed seven species (most notably the book 'Insects of Colorado' which has a google preview here), but those sources only list six specific species.

 

[sbugir]

Humph, well I'm stumped too then.