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Tropidomantinae

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Tropidomantinae
Eomantis guttatipennis (previously placed in Tropidomantis)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Nanomantidae
Subfamily: Tropidomantinae

Tropidomantinae is a subfamily of mantises in the new (2019) family Nanomantidae.[1] Within the single tribe Tropidomantini there are six genera, distributed in Asia and the Pacific.[2]

Tribes and Genera

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The Mantodea Species File[2] lists two tribes:

NB: Several genera, previously placed here, have now been moved to the Fulciniinae, Hapalomantinae and Nanomantinae. Xanthomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 is a synonym of Pliacanthopus (above).

References

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  1. ^ Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2): 101–196. doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567.
  2. ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Tropidomantinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2020-07-23.

Further reading

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