Hierodulinae

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Hierodulinae
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Hierodula sp.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Hierodulinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

The Hierodulinae are a subfamily of praying mantids, established by Brunner von Wattenwyl, [1] and restored as part of a major taxonomic revision of mantid. [2] The subfamily now contains genera previously placed elsewhere in the family Mantidae.[ examples needed ]

Contents

The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Mantoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Species have been recorded from: Africa, Asia and Australia. [3]

Tribes and genera

This subfamily now contains many genera that were previously placed elsewhere including the Mantinae. The Mantodea Species File lists two tribes here: [3]

Archimantini

Hierodulini

References

  1. ↑ Brunner von Wattenwyl C (1893) Revis. Syst. Orth.
  2. ↑ 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 Entomology55 (2): 101-196.
  3. 1 2 Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 11 July 2020)
  4. ↑ Vermeersch, Xavier H.C. (2018-06-07). "Phasmomantella gen. nov., a spectacular new genus of praying mantis from southern Central Vietnam (Mantodea, Mantidae, Deroplatyinae, Euchomenellini)". European Journal of Taxonomy (442). doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.442 . ISSN   2118-9773.
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