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Tenodera

Tenodera is a genus of mantises in the family Mantidae, which contains several species of praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found primarily in Africa, Asia, and Australia, but also North America.

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Tenodera
Adult male Tenodera sinensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Tribe: Tenoderini
Genus: Tenodera
Burmeister, 1838
Type species
Mantis fasciata
(Olivier, 1792)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Paratenodera (Giglio-Tos, 1912)

Tenodera1 is a genus of mantises in the family Mantidae, which contains several species of praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found primarily in Africa, Asia, and Australia, but also North America.2

Description

Specifically, mantids in this genus can be identified by their mid and hind femora, which contain an apical spine.

Species

These species are recognised in the genus Tenodera:2

  1. Tenodera acuticauda (Yang, 1997)
  2. Tenodera angustipennis (Saussure, 1869) (narrow-winged mantis)
  3. Tenodera aridifolia (Stoll, 1813)
  4. Tenodera australasiae (Leach, 1814) (purple-winged mantis)
  5. Tenodera caudafissilis (Wang, 1992)
  6. Tenodera chloreudeta (Burmeister, 1838)
  7. Tenodera costalis (Blanchard, 1853)
  8. Tenodera fasciata (Olivier, 1792)
  9. Tenodera intermedia (Saussure, 1870)
  10. Tenodera iringana (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
  11. Tenodera parasinensis (Otte & Spearman, 2004)
  12. Tenodera philippina (Beier, 1929)
  13. Tenodera rungsi (Uvarov, 1935)
  14. Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) (Chinese mantis)
  15. Tenodera stotzneri (Werner, 1929)
  16. Tenodera superstitiosa (Fabricius, 1781)
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Burmeister H (1838) Handb. Ent., Burm. 2: 534.
  2. Mantodea Species File (v. 5.0, retrieved 13 August 2021)
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