Epaphroditidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

of the

Mantodea 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 ...

, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the

Hymenopodidae Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camouflaged among them; these are called flower mantises. Their coloration is aggressive ...

, but is now excluded.

Subfamilies and Genera

The ''Mantodea Species File''Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
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genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

Epaphroditinae

;tribe Callimantini * '' Callimantis'' Stal, 1877 - monotypic (''C. antillarum'' Saussure, 1859) ;tribe Epaphroditini * '' Epaphrodita'' Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

* '' Gonatista'' Saussure, 1869 * '' Gonatistella'' Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (''G. nigropicta'' Westwood, 1889)

Now moved

* ''

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 ...

'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019)

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 Deroplatyin ...

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q62066805 Mantodea families