Liturgusidae

Liturgusidae
	Liturgusa maya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Liturgusidae; Giglio-Tos, 1919

Liturgusidae is a

Neotropical superfamily Acanthopoidea. A substantial number of genera, previously placed here, have recently been moved to the new or revived other families:^[1]

Dactylopterygidae
Gonypetidae
Gonatistinae
Majangidae: subfamily Majanginae
Mellierinae
Fulciniinae

Tribes and Genera

The Mantodea Species File now lists two tribes, containing the following genera:^[2]

tribe Hagiomantini

Hagiomantis Serville, 1839

tribe Liturgusini

Corticomantis Svenson, 2014 - monotypic (Corticomantis atricoxata (Beier, 1931))
Fuga Svenson, 2014
Liturgusa Saussure, 1869 (lichen mantises)
Velox Svenson, 2014 - monotypic (Velox wielandi Svenson, 2014)

References

^ Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
^ Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Liturgusidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-06-12.

[1] Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae), G. I. Holwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

External links

Media related to Liturgusidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Liturgusidae at Wikispecies

[1] Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.

[Otte2019-2] Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Liturgusidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-06-12.

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