Mantoididae
| Mantoididae Temporal range: | |
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| Vespamantoida wherley | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Infraorder: | Spinomantodea Schwarz & Roy, 2019[1] |
| Superfamily: | Mantoidoidea |
| Family: | Mantoididae Giglio-Tos, 1927 |
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Mantoididae is a family of mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. The family was formerly represented by the sole genus Mantoida, until the genus Paramantoida[2] was described in 2014 and Vespamantoida[3] in 2019. The family differs from the closely related Chaeteessidae in having an apical claw on the fore tibiae which are also less curved. Males have ocelli and a cylindrical body shape, unlike the dorsoventrally flattened Chaeteessidae. The cerci are also shorter.[2]
Genera
[edit]The following genera are placed in the family Mantoididae:[4]
- Mantoida Newman, 1838 - 11 species
- Paramantoida Agudelo, 2014 - 1 species, Paramantoida amazonica, typically dark colored with white spots resembling certain wasps[2]
- Vespamantoida Svenson & Rodrigues, 2019 - 2 species, resemble some ichneumonid wasps[3]
- †Pseudomantoida Schubnel and Nel, 2019 - Oise amber, France, Eocene (Ypresian)
References
[edit]- ↑ "infraorder Spinomantodea: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 Agudelo AA (May 2014). "A new genus and species of Mantoididae (Mantodea) from the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon, with remarks on Mantoida Newman, 1838". Zootaxa. 3797 (3797): 194–206. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.14. eISSN 1175-5334. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 24870864. S2CID 43116254.
- 1 2 Svenson GJ, Rodrigues HM (2019-10-17). "A novel form of wasp mimicry in a new species of praying mantis from the Amazon rainforest, Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)". PeerJ. 7 e7886. doi:10.7717/peerj.7886. eISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6812689. PMID 31656699. S2CID 204881727.
- ↑ "family Mantoididae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
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