Biology:Epaphrodita

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Epaphrodita is a genus of praying mantids in the family Epaphroditidae.[1] It is the type genus of its family.[2] It is distributed in Hispaniola and Saint Lucia.[3]

Species

There are two[3] or three recognized species:[1][4]

  • Epaphrodita lobivertex Lombardo & Perez-Gelabert, 2004
  • Epaphrodita musarum Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 (=Epaphrodita dentifrons Saussure, 1872)
  • Epaphrodita undulata Saussure, 1870

Moulin and colleagues consider Epaphrodita undulata a synonym of Epaphrodita musarum.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Epaphrodita Serville, 1831". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6SM5S. 
  2. Rodrigues, H M; Svenson, G J (2018). "Epaphroditidae sensu novo, an endemic Caribbean family of morphologically divergent praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea)". Neotropical Entomology 47 (4): 502–507. doi:10.1007/s13744-017-0570-7. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Moulin, Nicolas; Meurgey, François; Hugel, Sylvain (2021). "Mantodea from Eastern Caribbean Islands". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. New Series 57 (3): 235–257. doi:10.1080/00379271.2021.1932590. https://hal.science/hal-03370328/document?utm_source=consensus. 
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