The ''Nanomantidae'' are a new (2019)
family
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of
praying mantises
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, based on the
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
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Nanomantis''. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,
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 Entomology'' 55 (2): 101-196.
/ref> genera and tribes
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have been moved here, substantially replacing the old family Iridopterygidae
Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae, have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent (2019) major revision of mantid taxonom ...
.
The new placement is in superfamily Nanomantoidea (of group 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 ...
. The recorded distribution of genera includes: Africa including Madagascar, the Himalayas, SE Asia through to Australia and Pacific islands.[Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 11 July 2020)]
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Subfamilies, tribes and selected genera
The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists four subfamilies:[
]
Fulciniinae
* tribe Fulciniini
** '' Calofulcinia'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Fulcinia'' Stal, 1877
** '' Hedigerella'' Werner, 1933
** '' Ima'' Tindale, 1924
** '' Machairima'' Beier, 1965
** '' Nannofulcinia'' Beier, 1965
** '' Papugalepsus'' Werner, 1928
** '' Pilomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Tylomantis'' Westwood, 1889
* tribe Neomantini
** '' Kongobatha'' Hebard, 1920
** '' Neomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
* tribe Paraoxypilini (Australasia, Oceania):
** subtribe Bolbina
*** '' Bolbe'' Stal, 1877
*** '' Papubolbe'' Beier, 1965
** subtribe Paraoxypilina
*** '' Cliomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1913
*** '' Exparoxypilus'' Beier, 1929
*** '' Gyromantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1913
*** '' Metoxypilus'' Giglio-Tos, 1913
*** '' Myrmecomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1913
*** '' Nesoxypilus'' Beier, 1965
*** '' Paraoxypilus'' Saussure, 1870
*** '' Phthersigena'' Stal, 1871
* tribe Stenomantini
** '' Ciulfina'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Fulciniola'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Stenomantis'' Saussure, 1871
Hapalomantinae
* tribe Hapalomantini: mainland Africa - genera:
** '' Bolbena'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Bolbula'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Hapalogymnes'' Kaltenbach, 1996
** '' Hapalomantis'' Saussure, 1871
* tribe Nilomantini: Madagascar
** '' Chloromantis'' Kaltenbach, 1998
** '' Cornucollis'' Brannoch & Svenson, 2016
** '' Enicophlebia'' Westwood, 1889
** '' Hyalomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Ilomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Melomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Negromantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Nilomantis'' Werner, 1907
** '' Platycalymma'' Westwood, 1889
Nanomantinae
* '' Miromantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1927
* '' Nanomantis'' Saussure, 1871
* '' Ormomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
* '' Oxymantis'' Werner, 1931
* '' Parananomantis'' Mukherjee, 1995
* '' Sceptuchus'' Hebard, 1920
Tropidomantinae
* tribe Epsomantini
** '' Epsomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
* tribe Tropidomantini
** '' Eomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
** '' Oligocanthopus'' Beier, 1935
** '' Pliacanthopus'' Giglio-Tos, 1927
** '' Sinomantis'' Beier, 1933
** '' Tropidomantis'' Stal, 1877
References
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