Iridopteryginae is a subfamily of
mantises
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
Gonypetidae
The ''Gonypetidae'' are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus '' Gonypeta''. The name was created by Westwood and it has been revived as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy; the subfamily Iridopteryginae having ...
. There are two
tribes
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...
, distributed in tropical Asia.
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Genera
The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists:
;tribe Amantini
* '' Amantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
;tribe Iridopterygini
* subtribe Iridopterygina
** '' Hapalopeza'' Stal, 1877
** '' Hapalopezella'' Giglio-Tos, 1915 (monotypic)
** '' Iridopteryx'' Saussure, 1869 (monotypic: '' Iridopteryx iridipennis'' Saussure, 1869)
** '' Micromantis'' Saussure, 1870 (monotypic)
** '' Muscimantis'' Henry, 1931 (monotypic)
** '' Pezomantis'' Uvarov, 1927 (monotypic)
** '' Spilomantis'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
* subtribe Tricondylomimina
** ''Tricondylomimus
''Tricondylomimus'' is an Asian genus of praying mantis in the family Gonypetidae. Formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus ''Nemotha
''Nemotha'' is a genus of praying mantids in the family Hymenopodidae: tribe Anaxarchini, conta ...
'' Chopard, 1930
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Gonypetidae
Mantodea subfamilies
Iridopteryginae