Biology:Photinaidae
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Short description: Family of praying mantises
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| Cardioptera brachyptera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Photinaidae |
Photinaidae is a family of mantises in the order Neotropical Mantodea, in the superfamily Acanthopoidea. There are about 11 genera and more than 40 described species in Photinaidae.[1][2]
Genera
These 11 genera belong to the family Photinaidae:
- Cardioptera Burmeister, 1838
- Chromatophotina Rivera, 2010
- Hicetia Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
- Macromantis Saussure, 1871
- Metriomantis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
- Microphotina Beier, 1935
- Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897
- Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915
- Photina Burmeister, 1838
- Photinella Giglio-Tos, 1915
- Photiomantis Toledo Piza, 1968
References
- ↑ "Photinaidae". https://www.gbif.org/species/9718604.
- ↑ Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Photinaidae". http://Mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1184692.
Further reading
- Agudelo Rondón, Antonio Arnovis; Lombardo, Francesco; Jantsch, Lauro José (2007). "Checklist of the neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)". Biota Colombiana 8 (2): 105–158. http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Agudelo2007NeotropicalMantidae.pdf.
- Brannoch, S. K.; Wieland, F.; Rivera, J.; Klass, K-D et al. (2017). "Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)". ZooKeys (696): 1–100. doi:10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 29200926.
- Svenson, Gavin J.; Whiting, Michael F. (2004). "Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator". Systematic Entomology 29 (3): 359–370. doi:10.1111/j.0307-6970.2004.00240.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q65069276 entry
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