Leptomantellidae
The Leptomantellidae are a new (2019), small family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Leptomantella. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,[1] genera have been moved here from the Caliridinae in the now obsolete family Tarachodidae.
Leptomantellidae | |
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Leptomantella cf. tonkinae, Vietnam | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Superorder: | Dictyoptera |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Leptomantellidae Schwarz & Roy, 2019[1] |
The new placement is in superfamily Nanomantoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Species in this family have been recorded from Asia, including India and Indochina.[2]
Genera
The Mantodea Species File lists:[2]
- Aetaella Hebard, 1920
- Hebardia - monotypic H. pellucida Werner, 1921
- Hebardiella Werner, 1924
- Leptomantella Uvarov, 1940
References
- Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
- Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 11 July 2020)
External links
- Media related to Leptomantellidae at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Caliridinae at Wikispecies
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