Photinaidae

Photinaidae is a family of mantises in the order Neotropical Mantodea, in the superfamily Acanthopoidea. There are about 11 genera and more than 40 described species in Photinaidae.[1][2]

Photinaidae
Cardioptera brachyptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Photinaidae

Genera

These 11 genera belong to the family Photinaidae:

  • Cardioptera Burmeister, 1838
  • Chromatophotina Rivera, 2010
  • Hicetia Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
  • Macromantis Saussure, 1871
  • Metriomantis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
  • Microphotina Beier, 1935
  • Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897
  • Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Photina Burmeister, 1838
  • Photinella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Photiomantis Toledo Piza, 1968

References

  1. "Photinaidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Photinaidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-11.

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