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Brancsikia
''Brancsikia'' is a genus of praying mantises in the new (2019) family Majangidae and the monotypic subfamily Brancsikiinae; it was previously placed in the Deroplatyinae. Species There are now two species in the genus ''Brancsikia'', listed in the ''Mantodea Species File'': *'' Brancsikia aeroplana'' Lamberton, 1911 *''Brancsikia freyi'' Brancsik, 1893 (synonym: '' Brancsikia simplex'') - type species See also *Dead leaf mantis Dead leaf mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic dead leaves. It is most often used in reference to species within genus ''Deroplatys'' because of their popularity as exotic pets. Examples include '' D. d ... References External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q11841830 Mantodea genera Taxa named by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure Taxa named by Leo Zehntner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brancsikia Simplex
''Brancsikia freyi'' is the type species in its genus of praying mantids: in the family ''Majangidae''. See also *Dead leaf mantis Dead leaf mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic dead leaves. It is most often used in reference to species within genus ''Deroplatys'' because of their popularity as exotic pets. Examples include '' D. d ... External linksAnimal Diversity {{Taxonbar, from=Q4956478, from2=Q10434704 Mantodea Insects described in 1893 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brancsikia Freyi
''Brancsikia freyi'' is the type species in its genus of praying mantids: in the family ''Majangidae''. See also *Dead leaf mantis Dead leaf mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic dead leaves. It is most often used in reference to species within genus ''Deroplatys'' because of their popularity as exotic pets. Examples include '' D. d ... External linksAnimal Diversity {{Taxonbar, from=Q4956478, from2=Q10434704 Mantodea Insects described in 1893 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brancsikia Aeroplana
''Brancsikia areoplana'' is a species of praying mantis from Madagascar, in the family ''Majangidae''. See also * List of mantis genera and species *Dead leaf mantis Dead leaf mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic dead leaves. It is most often used in reference to species within genus ''Deroplatys'' because of their popularity as exotic pets. Examples include '' D. d ... External linksAnimal Diversity Mantidae Deroplatyinae Insects described in 1911 Taxa named by Charles Lamberton {{Mantidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majangidae
The Majangidae are a revived (2019) family of praying mantids from Madagascar. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy, this family consists of genera in two subfamilies previously placed in the Liturgusidae (Majanginae) and Deroplatyinae. The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Epaphroditoidea (of the clade Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha .... Subfamilies and Genera The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists two subfamilies: ;Brancsikiinae * '' Brancsikia'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 2 spp. ;Majanginae * tribe Danuriellini ** '' Danuriella'' Westwood, 1889: 3 spp. * tribe Majangini ** '' Liturgusella'' Giglio-Tos, 1915 *** monotypic ''L. malagassa'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 ** '' Majanga' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deroplatyinae
Deroplatyinae is a subfamily in the new (2019) family Deroplatyidae, containing species found in South-East Asia. Tribes and selected genera The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists the following: * tribe Deroplatyini ** subtribe Deroplatyina *** ''Deroplatys'' Westwood, 1839 ** subtribe Pseudempusina *** '' Mythomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1916 *** '' Pseudempusa'' Brunner v. W., 1893 * tribe Euchomenellini *** '' Euchomenella'' Giglio-Tos, 1916 *** '' Indomenella'' Roy, 2008 *** '' Phasmomantella'' Vermeersch, 2018 *** '' Tagalomantis'' Hebard, 1920 Note: the genus '' Brancsikia'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is now placed in the family Majangidae. See also *List of mantis genera and species The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here. The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 ... References External linksTree of Life - Mant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Louis Frédéric De Saussure
Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (; ; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthopteroid insects. He also was a prolific taxonomist. Biography Saussure's elementary education was at Alphonse Briquet's then, as an adolescent, at the Hofwyl school run by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg. At the University of Geneva he was taught by François Jules Pictet de la Rive, who introduced him to entomology. After several years of study in Paris he received the degree of licentiate of the Faculty of Paris and obtained the degree of Doctor from the University of Giessen. He worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. His first paper, in 1852, was on solitary wasps. In 1854 he traveled to the West Indies, then to Mexico and the United States of America. There he met Louis Agassiz. He returned to Switzerland in 1856 with collections of American insects, myriapods, crustaceans, birds and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Zehntner
Leo Zehntner (19 December 1864 in Reigoldswil – 3 April 1961 in Liestal) was a Swiss naturalist. Biography He studied natural sciences in Basel and Bern, and following graduation (1890), he worked as an assistant to entomologist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in Geneva. In 1894 he began work as a zoologist at the Pasuruan inspection station on Java, where he dealt with pests that plagued sugar cane plantations. In 1901 in Salatiga (Java) he opened an inspection station for cacao cultivation.Zürich Herbaria (biography)Dizionario storico della Svizzera (biography) From 1906 to 1918 he served as director of the agricultural institute for the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praying Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects ( Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other more distantly related insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ... Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Leaf Mantis
Dead leaf mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic dead leaves. It is most often used in reference to species within genus ''Deroplatys'' because of their popularity as exotic pets. Examples include '' D. desiccata'' (giant dead leaf mantis), '' D. lobata'' (Southeast Asian dead leaf mantis), and '' D. philippinica'' (Philippines dead leaf mantis). Other species to which the term may apply include ''Acanthops falcataria'' (South American dead leaf mantis), '' A. falcata'' (South American dead leaf mantis), and ''Phyllocrania paradoxa'' (more common known as the ghost mantis). See also *Flower mantis *Leaf mantis *Shield mantis * Grass mantis * Stick mantis *''Acanthops'' *List of mantis genera and species The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here. The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
