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Epaphrodita

Epaphrodita is a genus of praying mantids in the family Epaphroditidae. It is the type genus of its family. It is distributed in Hispaniola and Saint Lucia.

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Epaphrodita
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Subfamily: Epaphroditinae
Genus: Epaphrodita
Serville, 183112

Epaphrodita is a genus of praying mantids in the family Epaphroditidae.1 It is the type genus of its family.3 It is distributed in Hispaniola and Saint Lucia.4

Species

There are two4 or three recognized species:12

  • Epaphrodita lobivertex Lombardo & Perez-Gelabert, 2004
  • Epaphrodita musarum Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 (=Epaphrodita dentifrons Saussure, 1872)
  • Epaphrodita undulata Saussure, 1870

Moulin and colleagues consider Epaphrodita undulata a synonym of Epaphrodita musarum.4

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References

References

  1. "Epaphrodita Serville, 1831". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  2. "Epaphrodita Serville, 1831". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  3. Rodrigues, H M; Svenson, G J (2018). "Epaphroditidae sensu novo, an endemic Caribbean family of morphologically divergent praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea)". Neotropical Entomology. 47 (4): 502–507. doi:10.1007/s13744-017-0570-7.
  4. Moulin, Nicolas; Meurgey, François; Hugel, Sylvain (2021). "Mantodea from Eastern Caribbean Islands". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. New Series. 57 (3): 235–257. doi:10.1080/00379271.2021.1932590.