| Spined dwarf mantis | |
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| Specimen in the Vienna Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Amelidae |
| Genus: | Ameles |
| Species: | †A. fasciipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ameles fasciipennis Kaltenbach, 1963 | |
The spined dwarf mantis (Ameles fasciipennis) is an extinct species of praying mantis that was endemic to Italy. [2]
It has only been collected once, probably in 1871 in the Tolentino area, and has not been seen since, despite extensive entomological surveys of the region. [3]
