Tenodera

Tenodera
Adult male Tenodera sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Mantodea
Family:Mantidae
Tribe:Polyspilotini
Genus:Tenodera
Burmeister, 1838
Type species
Mantis fasciata
(Olivier, 1792)
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Epitenodera (Giglio-Tos, 1911)
  • Paratenodera (Giglio-Tos, 1912)

Tenodera is a genus of mantis in the subfamily Mantinae of the family Mantidae which contains several species of praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia.[1]

Description

Specifically, mantids in this genus can be identified by their mid and hind femora which contain an apical spine.

Species

  • Tenodera acuticauda (Yang, 1997)
  • Tenodera angustipennis Saussure,1896 (Narrow-winged mantis)
  • Tenodera aridifolia (Stoll, 1813)
  • Tenodera australasiae (Leach, 1814) (Purple-winged Mantis)
  • Tenodera brevipennis (Saussure, 1871)
  • Tenodera capitata (Saussure, 1869)
  • Tenodera caudafissilis (Wang, 1992)
  • Tenodera chloreudeta (Burmeister, 1838)
  • Tenodera costalis (Blanchard, 1853)
  • Tenodera equatoriana (La Greca, 1993)
  • Tenodera fasciata (Olivier, 1792)
  • Tenodera gambiensis (Beier, 1931)
  • Tenodera herbacea (Serville, 1839)
  • Tenodera houyi (Werner, 1928)
  • Tenodera intermedia (Saussure, 1870)
  • Tenodera iringana (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
  • Tenodera nimbana (Roy, 1963)
  • Tenodera parasinensis (Otte & Spearman, 2004)
  • Tenodera philippina (Beier, 1929)
  • Tenodera rungsi (Uvarov, 1935)
  • Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) (Chinese Mantis)
  • Tenodera stotzneri (Werner, 1929)
  • Tenodera superstitiosa (Fabricius, 1781)

[2]

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ List of mantis genera and species#Genus Tenodera
  2. ↑ http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=367


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.