Tropidomantinae

Tropidomantinae is a subfamily of mantids in the family Iridopterygidae. Within the single tribe Tropidomantini there are 13 genera and more than 40 described species, distributed in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.[1]

Tropidomantinae
Hyalomantis punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Iridopterygidae
Subfamily: Tropidomantinae

Genera

These 13 genera belong to the subfamily Tropidomantinae:

  • Chloromantis Kaltenbach, 1998
  • Cornucollis Brannoch & Svenson, 2016 (monotypic)
  • Enicophlebia Westwood, 1889
  • Hyalomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Kongobatha Hebard, 1920
  • Melomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Miromantis Giglio-Tos, 1927
  • Negromantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Neomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Oxymantis Werner, 1931 (monotypic)
  • Platycalymma Westwood, 1889
  • Tropidomantis Stal, 1877
  • Xanthomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915

References

  1. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Tropidomantinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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