Biology:Hymenopodinae

Short description: Subfamily of praying mantises

Hymenopodinae
Adult female Creobroter sp (species unknown. 4-5cm in length) from West Java
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Hymenopodidae
Subfamily:	Hymenopodinae Giglio-Tos, 1919
Tribes
Anaxarchini Hymenopodini

Hymenopodinae is a subfamily of the mantis family Hymenopodidae that includes several species of flower mantises.

Tribes and genera

The Mantodea Species File lists genera in two tribes:

Anaxarchini

• Anaxarcha Stal, 1877
• Euantissa Giglio-Tos, 1927
• Heliomantis 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

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5956595 entry