Thespidae

Thespidae is a family of Neotropical insects in the order Mantodea.[1][2][3][4] Following a major revision of this order in 2019, the old-world subfamilies Haaniinae and Hoplocoryphinae, previously placed here, have been upgraded to family level.

Thespidae
Thespidae sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Thespidae
Giglio-Tos, 1919
Subfamilies
  • Bantiinae
  • Miobantiinae
  • Musoniellinae
  • Pseudomiopteriginae
  • Pseudopogonogastrinae
  • Thespinae

Subfamilies and genera

The following taxa are recognised in the family Thespidae:[5]

Bantiinae
  • Bantia Stal, 1877
  • Bantiella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Diabantia Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Mantellias Westwood, 1889
  • Mantillica Westwood, 1889
  • Thrinaconyx Saussure, 1892

Miobantiinae

  • Anamiopteryx Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Chloromiopteryx Giglio-Tos, 1915 (synonym Emboicy Terra, 1995)
  • Eumiopteryx Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Miobantia Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Paradiabantia Toledo Piza, 1973

Musoniellinae

  • Leptomiopteryx Chopard, 1911
  • Eumusonia Giglio-Tos, 1916
  • Musoniella Giglio-Tos, 1916
  • Pizaia Terra, 1982

Pseudomiopteriginae

  • Promiopteryx Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Pseudomiopteryx Saussure, 1870

Pseudopogonogastrinae

  • Pseudopogonogaster Beier, 1942

Thespinae

  • Bistanta Anderson, 2018
  • Galapagia Scudder, 1893
  • Liguanea Rehn & Hebard, 1938
  • Oligonicella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Oligonyx Saussure, 1869
  • Piscomantis Rivera & Vergara-Cobián
  • Thesprotia Stal, 1877
  • Carrikerella Hebard, 1921
  • Pogonogaster Rehn, 1918
  • Thesprotiella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Macromusonia Hebard, 1922
  • Musonia Stal, 1877
  • Musoniola Giglio-Tos, 1917
  • Paramusonia Rehn, 1904
  • Pseudomusonia Werner, 1909
  • Thespis Serville, 1831

See also

References
  1. Catalogue of Life
  2. Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2). doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567.
  3. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Thespidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  4. Patel, Shveta; Singh, Garima; Singh, Rajendra (2016). "A checklist of global distribution of Liturgusidae and Thespidae (Mantodea: Dictyoptera)". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 4 (6).
  5. "family Thespidae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
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