Epaphroditidae
Family of praying mantises
Epaphroditidae | |
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Grizzled Mantis (Gonatista grisea) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Epaphroditidae Giglio-Tos, 1915 |
Genera | |
Synonyms | |
Acanthopsites, |
Epaphroditidae[1] is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.[2]
Subfamilies and genera
The Mantodea Species File[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:
Epaphroditinae
- tribe Callimantini
- Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)
- tribe Epaphroditini
- Epaphrodita Serville, 1831
Gonatistinae
- Gonatista Saussure, 1869
- Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)
Now moved
- Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.
References
External links
- Data related to Epaphroditinae at Wikispecies