Spilomantis

Genus of praying mantises

Spilomantis

Spilomantis occipitalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Gonypetidae
Subfamily:	Iridopteryginae
Genus:	Spilomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915

Spilomantis^[1] is a genus of Asian praying mantids in the family Iridopterygidae.^[2] These species were long placed in the genus Hapalopeza, but after a review of type material at the Natural History Museum, London^[3] this genus name has been restored.

Species

The Mantodea Species File^[2] lists:

Spilomantis nigripes Werner, 1926
Spilomantis occipitalis (Westwood, 1889) – type species (as Hapalopeza occipitalis Westwood)

References

^ Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 44.
^ ^a ^b Mantodea Species File: genus Spilomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 29 July 2020)
^ Marshall J (1975) Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 31(8): 311-327