Tropidomantinae

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Tropidomantinae
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Eomantis guttatipennis (previously placed in Tropidomantis )
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Nanomantidae
Subfamily: Tropidomantinae

Tropidomantinae is a subfamily of mantises in the new (2019) family Nanomantidae. [1] Within the single tribe Tropidomantini there are six genera, distributed in Asia and the Pacific. [2]

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Tribes and Genera

The Mantodea Species File [2] lists two tribes:

NB: Several genera, previously placed here, have now been moved to the Fulciniinae, Hapalomantinae and Nanomantinae.

References

  1. Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2): 101–196. doi: 10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567 .
  2. 1 2 Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Tropidomantinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2020-07-23.

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