Mantoididae

Mantoididae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Vespamantoida wherley
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Mantoididae Giglio-Tos, 1927
Genera
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Mantoididae is a family of praying mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. The family was formerly represented by the sole genus Mantoida , until the genus Paramantoida ^[1] was described in 2014 and Vespamantoida ^[2] in 2019. The family differs from the closely related Chaeteessidae in having an apical claw on the fore tibiae which are also less curved. Males have ocelli and a cylindrical body shape, unlike the dorsoventrally flattened Chaeteessidae. The cerci are also shorter. ^[1]

Genera

The following genera are placed in the family Mantoididae: ^[3]

• Mantoida - 11 species,
• Paramantoida - 1 species Paramantoida amazonica , typically dark colored with white spots resembling certain wasps ^[1]
• Vespamantoida - 2 species, resemble some ichneumonid wasps ^[4]
• † Pseudomantoida Schubnel and Nel 2019 Oise amber, France, Eocene (Ypresian)

References

1. Agudelo AA (May 2014). "A new genus and species of Mantoididae (Mantodea) from the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon, with remarks on Mantoida Newman, 1838" . Zootaxa. 3797 (3797): 194–206. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.14. PMID   24870864.
2. Svenson GJ, Rodrigues HM (2019-10-17). "Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)". PeerJ. 7: e7886. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7886 . PMC   6812689 . PMID   31656699.
3. "family Mantoididae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
4. Svenson GJ, Rodrigues HM (2019-10-17). "Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)". PeerJ. 7: e7886. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7886 . PMC   6812689 . PMID   31656699.