Thespinae
Thespinae is a subfamily of mantids in the family Thespidae. There are about 9 genera and at least 40 described species: found in Australasia, Central and South America.[1][2][3]
| Thespinae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Superorder: | Dictyoptera |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Thespidae |
| Subfamily: | Thespinae |
Genera
These nine genera belong to the single tribe Parathespini:
- Eumusonia Giglio-Tos, 1916
- Galapagia Scudder, 1893
- Macromusonia Hebard, 1922
- Musonia Stal, 1877
- Musoniella Giglio-Tos, 1916
- Musoniola Giglio-Tos, 1917
- Paramusonia Rehn, 1904
- Parathespis Saussure, 1869
- Thespis Serville, 1831
References
- 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.
- 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).
- Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Thespinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
- Agudelo Rondón, Antonio Arnovis; Lombardo, Francesco; Jantsch, Lauro José (2007). "Checklist of the neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 8 (2): 105–158.
- Brannoch, S. K.; Wieland, F.; Rivera, J.; Klass, K-D; et al. (2017). "Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)". ZooKeys (696): 1–100. doi:10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. PMC 5673847. PMID 29200926.
- Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2). doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567.
- Svenson, Gavin J.; Whiting, Michael F. (2004). "Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator". Systematic Entomology. 29 (3): 359–370. doi:10.1111/j.0307-6970.2004.00240.x.
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