Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae,[1] have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent (2019) major revision of mantid taxonomy.[2]
| Iridopterygidae | |
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| Hapalopeza nilgirica, Kadavoor | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Iridopterygidae Giglio-Tos, 1919 |
Former subfamilies
edit- Hapalomantinae: moved to new family Nanomantidae
- Iridopteryginae: now consists of two tribes in the Gonypetidae[3]
- Nanomantinae: now in new family Nanomantidae contained:
- Tribe Fulcinini
- Tribe Nanomantini
- Nilomantinae: now a tribe of Hapalomantinae
- Tropidomantinae: previously containing a single tribe, the Tropidomantini[4]
- genera previously placed incertae sedis here are now the Tropidomantinae.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ ITIS Catalogue of Life[permanent dead link]
- ^ Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
- ^ Mantodea Species File: subfamily Iridopteryginae (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 24 July 2020)
- ^ Mantodea Species File: subfamily Tropidomantinae (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 January 2019)
Media related to Iridopterygidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Iridopterygidae at Wikispecies
