Oligonicinae

Oligonicinae[1] is a subfamily of mantids in the family Thespidae. There are about 16 genera and more than 60 described species in the single tribe Oligonicini,[2][3] mostly found in South America.[4]

Oligonicinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Thespidae
Subfamily: Oligonicinae
Giglio-Tos. 1915

Genera

These 16 genera belong to the subfamily Oligonicinae:

  • Bactromantis Scudder, 1896
  • Bantia Stal, 1877
  • Bantiella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Carrikerella Hebard, 1921
  • Diabantia Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Liguanea Rehn & Hebard, 1938
  • Mantellias Westwood, 1889
  • Mantillica Westwood, 1889
  • Oligonicella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Oligonyx Saussure, 1869
  • Pogonogaster Rehn, 1918
  • Pseudomusonia Werner, 1909
  • Pseudopogonogaster Beier, 1942
  • Thesprotia Stål, 1877
  • Thesprotiella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Thrinaconyx Saussure, 1892

References

  1. Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 188.
  2. Rivera, Julio; Svenson, Gavin J. (2016). "The Neotropical "polymorphic earless praying mantises" – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (3). doi:10.1111/syen.12178.
  3. Patel, Shveta; Singh, Garima; Singh, Rajendra (2016). "A checklist of global distribution of Liturgusidae and Thespidae (Mantodea: Dictyoptera)". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 4 (6).
  4. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Oligonicinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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