Amorphoscelidae
Family of praying mantises
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Amorphoscelis elegans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Superfamily: | Nanomantodia |
Family: | Amorphoscelidae Stål, 1877 |
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Amorphoscelidae is a family of mantises in the order Mantodea.
Subfamilies and Genera
There are eight genera in two subfamilies recognized in the family Amorphoscelidae:[1]
Subfamily Amorphoscelinae
Distribution: Africa, Yemen, tropical Asia
- Amorphoscelis Stal, 1871
- †Amorphoscelites Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1994
- Bolivaroscelis Roy, 1973
- Caudatoscelis Roy, 1973
- Gigliotoscelis Roy, 1973
- Maculatoscelis Roy, 1973
Subfamily Perlamantinae
Distribution: Africa, Europe
- Paramorphoscelis Werner, 1907 - monotypic - P. gondokorensis Werner, 1907
- Perlamantis Guerin-Meneville, 1843
See also
References
- ^ "family Amorphoscelidae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
External links
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Extant Mantodea families
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Infraclass: Neoptera
- Superorder: Dictyoptera
- Acanthopidae
- Amorphoscelididae
- Chaeteessidae
- Chroicopteridae
- Dactylopterygidae
- Deroplatyidae
- Empusidae
- Eremiaphilidae
- Gonypetidae
- Haaniidae
- Hoplocoryphidae
- Hymenopodidae (flower mantises)
- Iridopterygidae
- Leptomantellidae
- Liturgusidae
- Majangidae
- Mantidae
- Mantoididae
- Metallyticidae
- Nanomantidae
- Rivetinidae
- Sibyllidae
- Tarachodidae
- Thespidae
- Toxoderidae