Epaphroditidae is a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

of the

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") ...

, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the

Hymenopodidae Hymenopodidae is a Family (biology), family of the Order (biology), order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six Subfamily (biology), subfamilies. Some of the species in this Family (biology), family mimic flowers and are found camouflaged amon ...

, but is now excluded.

Subfamilies and genera

The ''Mantodea Species File''Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
/ref> lists two subfamilies containing the

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Epaphroditinae

;tribe Callimantini * '' Callimantis'' Stal, 1877 - monotypic (''C. antillarum'' Saussure, 1859) ;tribe Epaphroditini * '' Epaphrodita'' Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

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

Now moved

* '' Brancsikia'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019)

Majangidae.

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q62066805 Mantodea families Epaphroditidae