Tenoderinae

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Tenoderinae
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Tenodera sinensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Tenoderinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

The Tenoderinae are a subfamily of praying mantids, originally used by Brunner von Wattenwyl. [1] It was restored as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy, [2] and contains many genera previously placed in the subfamily Mantinae.

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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, Europe and Asia. [3]

Tribes and genera

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

Paramantini

subtribe Paramantina
subtribe Tarachomantina

Tenoderini

subtribe Polyspilotina
subtribe Tenoderina

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 16 July 2020)
  4. ↑ "A new monotypic genus of the tribe Tenoderini (Mantodea: Mantidae: Tenoderinae) from the southern Thailand - Far Eastern Entomologist". www.biosoil.ru. doi:10.25221/fee.538.1 . Retrieved 2025-12-01.
  5. ↑ Image of dead adult female Tenospilota nova (used to be in the genus Plistospilota, Plistospilota nova).
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