Tarachodidae
Family of praying mantises
| Tarachodidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Tarachodidae Handlirsch, 1930 |
| Subfamilies | |
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Tarachodidae is a now obsolete family in the order Mantodea, of genera found in Africa and Asia.[1]
Former subfamilies
The family previously consisted of two subfamilies of "bark mantises":[2]
Caliridinae
These genera have now been moved to the new families:
- Haaniidae: Caliris
- Leptomantellidae: Leptomantella
Tarachodinae
This subfamily has now been moved to the Eremiaphilidae. These genera are now placed in the subfamily Iridinae:
- Dysaules
- Iris
See also
References
External links
Media related to Tarachodidae at Wikimedia Commons
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Extant Mantodea families
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Infraclass: Neoptera
- Superorder: Dictyoptera
- Acanthopidae
- Amorphoscelididae
- Chaeteessidae
- Chroicopteridae
- Dactylopterygidae
- Deroplatyidae
- Empusidae
- Eremiaphilidae
- Gonypetidae
- Haaniidae
- Hoplocoryphidae
- Hymenopodidae (flower mantises)
- Iridopterygidae
- Leptomantellidae
- Liturgusidae
- Majangidae
- Mantidae
- Mantoididae
- Metallyticidae
- Nanomantidae
- Rivetinidae
- Sibyllidae
- Tarachodidae
- Thespidae
- Toxoderidae
