Iridopterygidae

Family of praying mantises

Iridopterygidae
Hapalopeza nilgirica, Kadavoor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Iridopterygidae
Giglio-Tos, 1919

Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae,[1] have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent (2019) major revision of mantid taxonomy.[2]

Former subfamilies

  • Hapalomantinae: moved to new family Nanomantidae
  • Iridopteryginae: now consists of two tribes in the Gonypetidae[3]
  • Nanomantinae: now in new family Nanomantidae contained:
    • Tribe Fulcinini
    • Tribe Nanomantini
  • Nilomantinae: now a tribe of Hapalomantinae
  • Tropidomantinae: previously containing a single tribe, the Tropidomantini[4]
  • genera previously placed incertae sedis here are now the Tropidomantinae.

See also

References

  1. ^ ITIS Catalogue of Life
  2. ^ Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
  3. ^ Mantodea Species File: subfamily Iridopteryginae (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 24 July 2020)
  4. ^ Mantodea Species File: subfamily Tropidomantinae (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 January 2019)
  • Media related to Iridopterygidae at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Iridopterygidae at Wikispecies
Taxon identifiers
Iridopterygidae