Hymenopodinae is a
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
of the
mantis family 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 ...
that includes several species of
flower mantises.
Tribes and genera
The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists genera in two
tribes:
Mantodea Species File (retrieved 10 January 2020)
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Anaxarchini
*'' Anaxarcha'' Stal, 1877
*'' Euantissa'' Giglio-Tos, 1927
*''Heliomantis
''Heliomantis'' is an Asian genus of praying mantids in the family Hymenopodidae, subfamily Hymenopodinae. The genus is Monotypic taxon, monotypic.
Species
The genus contains only one valid species:
* ''Heliomantis elegans'' (Longinos Navás, Na ...
'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
*'' Nemotha'' Wood-Mason, 1884
*'' Odontomantis'' Saussure, 1871
*'' Werneriana'' Shcherbakov, Ehrmann & Borer, 2016 - monotypic ''W. latipennis'' (Werner, 1930)
Hymenopodini
;subtribe Hymenopodina
*'' Helvia'' (Stal, 1877) (synonym: ''Parymenopus'' (Wood-Mason, 1890))
*'' Hymenopus'' (Serville, 1831)
*'' Theopropus'' (Saussure, 1898)
;subtribe Pseudocreobotrina
*'' Chlidonoptera'' (Karsch, 1892)
*'' Chloroharpax'' (Werner, 1908)
*'' Creobroter'' (Westwood, 1889)
*'' Panurgica'' (Karsch, 1896)
*'' Pseudocreobotra'' (Saussure, 1870)
Now placed in family Galinthiadidae
*'' Galinthias'' (Stal, 1877) (synonym '' Attalia'' (Uvarov, 1936))
*'' Harpagomantis'' (Kirby, 1899)
*'' Pseudoharpax'' (Saussure, 1870)
See also
* List of mantis genera and species
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References
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Hymenopodidae
Mantodea subfamilies