Biology:Cretomantidae

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Short description: Extinct family of praying mantises

Cretomantidae
Temporal range: Aptian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Cretomantidae

Cretomantidae is an extinct family of mantises in the order Mantodea. It contains at least one genus Cretomantis, which is known from the Early Cretaceous Zaza Formation of Buryatia, Russia.[1][2][3] The genus Electromantis known from Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Taimyr amber of Russia was formerly placed in this family, but is currently considered incertae sedis within Mantodea.[4]

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Cretomantidae:

  • Cretomantis Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1994
  • Electromantis Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1994

References

  1. "Cretomantidae". https://www.gbif.org/species/8447266. Retrieved 2019-05-11. 
  2. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Cretomantidae". http://Mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1186184. Retrieved 2019-05-11. 
  3. Delclòs, Xavier; Peñalver, Enrique; Arillo, Antonio; Engel, Michael S.; Nel, André; Azar, Dany; Ross, Andrew (May 2016). "New mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cretaceous ambers from Lebanon, Spain, and Myanmar" (in en). Cretaceous Research 60: 91–108. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.11.001. Bibcode2016CrRes..60...91D. 

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