Liturgusidae is a
family
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of
praying mantids in the new (2019)
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
superfamily Acanthopoidea. A substantial number of genera, previously placed here, have recently been moved to the new or revived other families:
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.
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* Dactylopterygidae
* 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 ...
* Epaphroditidae: subfamily Gonatistinae
* Majangidae: subfamily Majanginae
* Mantidae
Mantidae is one of the largest families in the order of praying mantises, based on the type species '' Mantis religiosa''; however, most genera are tropical or subtropical. Historically, this was the only family in the order, and many references ...
: subfamily Mellierinae
* Nanomantidae: subfamily Fulciniinae
Tribes and Genera
The ''Mantodea Species File'' now lists two tribes, containing the following genera:[
;tribe Hagiomantini
* '' Hagiomantis'' Serville, 1839
;tribe Liturgusini
* '' Corticomantis'' Svenson, 2014 - monotypic ('' Corticomantis atricoxata'' (Beier, 1931))
* '']Fuga
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'' Svenson, 2014
* '' Liturgusa'' Saussure, 1869 (lichen mantises)
* '' Velox'' Svenson, 2014 - monotypic ('' Velox wielandi'' Svenson, 2014)
References
Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae), G. I. Holwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
External links
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Mantodea families
Taxa named by Ermanno Giglio-Tos
Mantodea subfamilies