Amorphoscelidae

Family of praying mantises

Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Superfamily: Nanomantodia
Family: Amorphoscelidae
Stål, 1877
Subfamilies
  • Amorphoscelinae
  • Perlamantinae
Synonyms
  • Amorphoscelididae Stål, 1877

Amorphoscelidae is a family of mantises in the order Mantodea.

Subfamilies and Genera

There are eight genera in two subfamilies recognized in the family Amorphoscelidae:[1]

Subfamily Amorphoscelinae

Distribution: Africa, Yemen, tropical Asia

  • Amorphoscelis Stal, 1871
  • †Amorphoscelites Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1994
  • Bolivaroscelis Roy, 1973
  • Caudatoscelis Roy, 1973
  • Gigliotoscelis Roy, 1973
  • Maculatoscelis Roy, 1973

Subfamily Perlamantinae

Distribution: Africa, Europe

  • Paramorphoscelis Werner, 1907 - monotypic - P. gondokorensis Werner, 1907
  • Perlamantis Guerin-Meneville, 1843

See also

References

  1. ^ "family Amorphoscelidae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-03.

External links

Wikispecies has information related to Amorphoscelididae.
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Extant Mantodea families
Taxon identifiers
Amorphoscelidae