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Epaphroditidae

Epaphroditidae is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.

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Epaphroditidae
A Makro of a small insect looking like tree bark and having six legs sitting on a tree.
Grizzled mantis (Gonatista grisea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Superfamily: Epaphroditoidea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Burmeister, 1838
Genera

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Synonyms

Acanthopsites,
Epaphroditinae.

Epaphroditidae1 is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.2

Subfamilies and genera

The Mantodea Species File3 lists two subfamilies containing the genera:

Epaphroditinae

tribe Callimantini
  • Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)
tribe Epaphroditini

Gonatistinae

  • Gonatista Saussure, 1869
  • Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)

Now moved

References

References

  1. Burmeister (1838) Handb. Ent., Burm., 2.
  2. Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.
  3. Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
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