Hymenopus coronatoides

Hymenopus coronatoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Hymenopodidae
Genus:	Hymenopus
Species:	H. coronatoides
Binomial name
Hymenopus coronatoides Wang, Liu & Yin, 1994 [1]

Hymenopus coronatoides is a proposed species of praying mantis that have been found in Jinghong County, Yunnan, China. ^[2]

Taxonomy

The species was later rejected as a junior subjective synonym of Hymenopus coronatus Manuel [in Olivier], 1797 by Delfosse, 2007. ^[3]

Etymology

The suffix "-ides" in Greek means literally 'son of', or, more generally, 'descendant of'. It usually has the meaning 'resembling something', in this case resembling the previously described species Hymenopus coronatus , with the same "coronat" as stem (itself referring to the shared crown-like structures on the insect's heads). Here, the suffix "-oides" adopted the additional -o- between components of composed words. ^[4]

See also

• List of mantis genera and species
• Flower Mantis

References

1. BioLib Texon profile: species Hymenopus coronatoides, Wang, Liu & Yin, 1994 Accessed date: August 29, 2014
2. Mantodeaspeciesfile.org Hymenopus coronatoides, Wang et al., 1994 Accessed date: 2014 August 29
3. Delfosse, Emmanuel (2007). "Nouvelles localisations et nouvelle synonymie pour la Mante-orchidée Hymenopus coronatus (Olivier, 1792) (Mantodea, Hymenopodidae)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (in French). 112 (4): 529–530.
4. The Greek & Latin Roots of English (5 ed.). The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 17 July 2014. p. 72. ISBN   9781442233287.