Epaphroditidae

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]

Epaphroditidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Giglio-Tos, 1915
Genera

see text

Synonyms

Acanthopsites,
Epaphroditinae.

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

Gonatistinae

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

Now moved

References

  1. Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 98.
  2. Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.
  3. Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
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