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
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

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