''Tenodera''
[Burmeister H (1838) ''Handb. Ent., Burm.'' 2: 534.] is a
genus of
mantis in the
family Mantidae which contains several species of
praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found primarily in Africa, Asia and Australia, but also North America.
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Description
Specifically, mantids in this genus can be identified by their mid and hind femora which contain an apical spine.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tenodera'':[Mantodea Species File]
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#''Tenodera acuticauda
''Tenodera acuticauda'' is a species of mantis in the family Mantidae.
Range
China (Changshou County, Sichuan).
References
Insects of China
Mantidae
Insects described in 1997
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'' (Yang, 1997)
#'' Tenodera angustipennis'' (Saussure, 1869) (narrow-winged mantis)
#''Tenodera aridifolia
''Tenodera aridifolia'' is a species of mantis in the subfamily Mantinae. The Chinese mantis, ''T. sinensis'', was once considered to be a subspecies of ''T. aridifolia'', but the species can be distinguished by the shape of male genitalia.
Range ...
'' (Stoll, 1813)
#'' Tenodera australasiae'' (Leach, 1814) (purple-winged mantis)
#'' Tenodera caudafissilis'' (Wang, 1992)
#'' Tenodera chloreudeta'' (Burmeister, 1838)
#'' Tenodera costalis'' (Blanchard, 1853)
#''Tenodera fasciata
''Tenodera fasciata'' is a species of mantis in the family Mantidae.
Range
Indonesia, Philippines and Okinawa( Ryukyu).
Subspecies
There were once two subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used ...
'' (Olivier, 1792)
#'' Tenodera intermedia'' (Saussure, 1870)
#'' Tenodera iringana'' (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
#''Tenodera parasinensis
''Tenodera parasinensis'' is a species of praying mantis.
References
Mantidae
Insects described in 2004
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'' (Otte & Spearman, 2004)
#'' Tenodera philippina'' (Beier, 1929)
#'' Tenodera rungsi'' (Uvarov, 1935)
#'' Tenodera sinensis'' (Saussure, 1871) (Chinese mantis)
#'' Tenodera stotzneri'' (Werner, 1929)
#''Tenodera superstitiosa
''Tenodera superstitiosa'' is a species in the family Mantidae.
Range
It is found in West Africa (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana, Mauritania, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso).
Subspecies
*''Tenodera superstitiosa supers ...
'' (Fabricius, 1781)
See also
* List of mantis genera and species#Genus Tenodera
References
External links
A key to Mantidae classificationTree of Life - ''Tenodera''
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Mantidae
Mantodea genera
Taxa named by Hermann Burmeister