Epaphroditidae

Family of praying mantises

Epaphroditidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Epaphroditidae Giglio-Tos, 1915
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Acanthopsites, Epaphroditinae.

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]

Subfamilies and genera

The Mantodea Species File^[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:

Epaphroditinae

tribe Callimantini

Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)

tribe Epaphroditini

Epaphrodita Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

Gonatista Saussure, 1869
Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)

Now moved

Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.

References

^ 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)