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Dactylopterygidae
Dactylopterygidae is a family of praying mantises, based on the type genus '' Dactylopteryx''. The first use of "Dactylopterygidae" was by Giglio-Tos and it has recently (2019) been revived as part of a major revision of mantis taxonomy; three genera have been separated from others in the subfamily Liturgusinae (mostly from Asia) and moved here from the family Liturgusidae. The new placement is in the superfamily Mantoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha .... Species in this family have been recorded from Tropical Africa. Genera The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Dactylopteryx'' Karsch, 1892 * '' Theopompella'' Giglio-Tos, 1917 * '' Zouza'' Rehn, 1911 References {{Mantodea Mantodea families [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantodea
Mantises are an Order (biology), order (Mantodea) of insects that contains List of mantis genera and species, over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in Temperate climate, temperate and Tropics, tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other more distantly related insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dactylopteryx
''Dactylopteryx'' is the type genus of praying mantids in the revived family Dactylopterygidae Dactylopterygidae is a family of praying mantises, based on the type genus '' Dactylopteryx''. The first use of "Dactylopterygidae" was by Giglio-Tos and it has recently (2019) been revived as part of a major revision of mantis taxonomy; three g .... The oldest documented instance of the species appeared in "Annual issues of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg", by Werner Karl Frederick Hall. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Dactylopteryx flexuosa'' Karsch, 1892 * '' Dactylopteryx intermedia'' Beier, 1963 * '' Dactylopteryx orientalis'' Werner, 1906 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5207803 Liturgusidae Mantodea genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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: * Dactylopterygidae * Gonypetidae * Epaphroditidae: subfamily Gonatistinae * Majangidae: subfamily Majanginae * Mantidae: subfamily Mellierinae * Nanomantidae: subfamily Fulciniinae Tribes and Genera The ''Mantodea Species File'' now lists two tribes, containing the following genera: ;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 Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae), G. I. Holwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schizomantodea
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches ( Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other more distantly related insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies ( Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal family-group taxon is a nominal genus called the 'type genus'; the family-group name is based upon that of the type genus." Any family-group name must have a type genus (and any genus-group name must have a type species, but any species-group name may, but need not, have one or more type specimens). The type genus for a family-group name is also the genus that provided the stem to which was added the ending -idae (for families). :Example: The family name Formicidae has as its type genus the genus '' Formica'' Linnaeus, 1758. Botanical nomenclature In botanical nomenclature, the phrase "type genus" is used, unofficially, as a term of convenience. In the '' ICN'' this phrase has no status. The code uses type specimens for ranks up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
