Thespinae

Thespinae is a subfamily of mantids in the family Thespidae. There are 16 genera and at least 40 described species: found in Australasia, Central and South America.[1][2][3]

Thespinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Thespidae
Subfamily:	Thespinae

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Thespinae:[4]

Tribe Oligonychini

• Subtribe Oligonychina
  • Bistanta Anderson, 2018
  • Galapagia Scudder, 1893
  • Liguanea Rehn & Hebard, 1938
  • Oligonicella Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Oligonyx Saussure, 1869
  • Piscomantis Rivera & Vergara-Cobián
  • Thesprotia Stal, 1877
• Subtribe Pogonogasterina
  • Carrikerella Hebard, 1921
  • Pogonogaster Rehn, 1918
  • Thesprotiella Giglio-Tos, 1915

Tribe Thespini

• Macromusonia Hebard, 1922
• Musonia Stal, 1877
• Musoniola Giglio-Tos, 1917
• Paramusonia Rehn, 1904
• Pseudomusonia Werner, 1909
• Thespis Serville, 1831

References

1. Rivera, Julio; Svenson, Gavin J. (2016). "The Neotropical "polymorphic earless praying mantises" – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (3). doi:10.1111/syen.12178.
2. Patel, Shveta; Singh, Garima; Singh, Rajendra (2016). "A checklist of global distribution of Liturgusidae and Thespidae (Mantodea: Dictyoptera)". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 4 (6).
3. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Thespinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
4. "subfamily Thespinae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.

Further reading

• Agudelo Rondón, Antonio Arnovis; Lombardo, Francesco; Jantsch, Lauro José (2007). "Checklist of the neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 8 (2): 105–158.
• Brannoch, S. K.; Wieland, F.; Rivera, J.; Klass, K-D; et al. (2017). "Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)". ZooKeys (696): 1–100. doi:10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. PMC 5673847. PMID 29200926.
• Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2). doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567.
• Svenson, Gavin J.; Whiting, Michael F. (2004). "Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator". Systematic Entomology. 29 (3): 359–370. doi:10.1111/j.0307-6970.2004.00240.x.