Epaphroditidae[1] 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]
| Epaphroditidae | |
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| Grizzled Mantis (Gonatista grisea) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Epaphroditidae Giglio-Tos, 1915 |
| Genera | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acanthopsites, | |
Subfamilies and genera
editThe Mantodea Species File[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:
- tribe Callimantini
- Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)
- tribe Epaphroditini
- Epaphrodita Serville, 1831
Gonatistinae
edit- Gonatista Saussure, 1869
- Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)
Now moved
edit- Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.
References
edit- ^ Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 98.
- ^ Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.
- ^ Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
External links
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Data related to Epaphroditinae at Wikispecies
