''Chaeteessa nigromarginata'' is a species of
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 ha ...
in the family
Chaeteessidae
Chaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises. It contains a single extant genus, '' Chaeteessa'', native to South America which is thought to be the most primitive and earliest diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from th ...
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Mantodea
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Insects described in 2004
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