Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Mantodea
Subordo: Eumantodea

Familiae (16): Acanthopidae – Amorphoscelididae – Chaeteessidae – Epaphroditidae – Empusidae – Eremiaphilidae – Hymenopodidae – Iridopterygidae – Leptomantellidae – Liturgusidae – Mantidae – Mantoididae – Metallyticidae – Sibyllidae – Tarachodidae – Thespidae – Toxoderidae – †Santanmantidae

Name

Mantodea Burmeister, 1838

References

• Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Kaukerfe. Gymnognatha. 2(2), 756 pp. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin (Berlin). BHL Reference page. 
• Agudelo, A.A, & Rivera, J. 2015. Some taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in American Mantodea (Insecta, Dictyoptera)—Part I. Zootaxa 3936(3): 335–356. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.2 Reference page. 
• Ehrmann, R. 2002. Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster.
• Gorochov, A.V. 2013. No evidence for Paleozoic origin of mantises (Dictyoptera: Mantina). Zoosystematica Rossica 22(1): 6–14. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Grimaldi D.A. 2003. A revision of Cretaceous mantises and their relationships, including new taxa (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea). American Museum Novitates 3412: pp. 1–47 pp., 27 figures, 3 tables. hdl: 2246/2838 . BHL. Reference page. 
• Mohammad, S.K., Alla, S.M.G., El-Hamouly, H., Ehrmann, R. & Nasser, M.G.E-D. 2011. Mantodea of Egypt. Zootaxa 3044: 1–27. Preview (PDF).
• Mukherjee, T.K., Ghosh, A.K. & Hazra, A.K. 1995. The mantid fauna of India (Insecta: Mantodea). Oriental Insects 29(1): 185–358. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.1995.10433744 Reference page. 
• Rivera, J. & Svenson, G.J. 2014. A revived focus on the praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea). Zootaxa 3797(1): 1–273. Reference page. 
• Rivera, J. & Vergara-Cobián, C. 2017. A checklist of the praying mantises of Peru: new records, one new genus (Piscomantis gen. n.) and biogeographic remarks (Insecta, Mantodea). Zootaxa 4337(3): 361–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.3.3. Reference page. 
• Schwarz, C.J. & Roy, R. 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 . Reference page. 
• Svenson, G.J. 2014. The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA. ZooKeys 433: 31–75. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.433.7054 Reference page. 
• Svenson, G.J. & Whiting, M.F. 2004. Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator. Systematic Entomology 29(3): 342–352.
• Tedrow, R., Nathan, K., Richard, N. & Svenson, G.J. 2015. A survey of the praying mantises of Rwanda, including new records (Insecta, Mantodea). Zootaxa 4027(1): 67–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.1.3 Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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