Biology:Chaeteessidae

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Short description: Family of insects

Chaeteessidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
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Chaeteessa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Chaeteessidae
Handlirsch 1926
Genera

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Chaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises.[1] It contains a single extant genus, Chaeteessa, native to South America which is thought to be the most primitive and earliest diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from the Paleogene of Eurasia and North America.

Fossil genera

  • Arvernineura Piton 1940 Menat Formation, France, Paleocene (Selandian)
  • Louispitonia Schubnel and Nel 2019 (=Archaeophlebia Piton 1940) Menat Formation, France, Paleocene (Selandian)
  • Lithophotina Cockerell 1908 Florissant Formation, Colorado, United States, Eocene
  • Megaphotina Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya, Primorsky, Russia, Eocene

Indeterminate species are also known from French Oise amber, dating to the Eocene (Ypresian)[2]

See also

References

  1. "family Chaeteessidae: Mantodea Species File". http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1186155. 
  2. Schubnel, Thomas; Nel, André (2019). "New Paleogene mantises from the Oise amber and their evolutionary importance". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64. doi:10.4202/app.00628.2019. ISSN 0567-7920. 

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