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Stagmatoptera

Stagmatoptera is a genus consisting of 14 species of mantises in the monotypic tribe Stagmatopterini, that inhabit the Neotropical region.

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Stagmatoptera
Drawing of a large green adult female mantid insect
Adult female Stagmatoptera supplicaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Vatinae
Tribe: Stagmatopterini
Genus: Stagmatoptera
Burmeister, 1838

Stagmatoptera is a genus consisting of 14 species of mantises in the monotypic tribe Stagmatopterini, that inhabit the Neotropical region.123

Species

photograph of a large green adult male mantid insect in the Amazon rainforest, near Nauta, Peru
Adult male Stagmatoptera binotata in the Amazon rainforest near Nauta, Peru source ↗
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References

References

  1. "Stagmatoptera Burmeister, 1838". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. "Stagmatoptera". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  3. Henrique Miranda Rodrigues; Eliana Marques Cancello (2 November 2016). "Taxonomic revision of Stagmatoptera Burmeister, 1838 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Stagmatopterinae)". Zootaxa. 4183 (1): 1–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4183.1.1.
  4. "Mantis Study Group Newsletter 2" (PDF). November 1996. ISSN 1364-3193.