Liturgusidae

Liturgusidae is a family of praying mantids in the new (2019) Neotropical superfamily Acanthopoidea. A substantial number of genera, previously placed here, have recently been moved to the new or revived other families:[1]

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

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
  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.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Liturgusidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  • Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae), G. I. Holwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
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