Gonypetidae

Gonypetidae
Gimantis sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Gonypetidae Westwood, 1889

The Gonypetidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Gonypeta. The first use of "Gonypetidae" was by Westwood^[1] and it has been revived as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy;^[2] the subfamily Iridopteryginae having been moved here from the obsolete family Iridopterygidae. The Gonypetinae include Asian genera transferred from the obsolete taxa Amelinae and Liturgusidae.

The new placement is in superfamily Gonypetoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Genera in this family have been recorded from: NE Africa, the Middle East, India, Indochina, Malesia through to New Guinea.^[3]

Subfamilies, tribes and genera[]

The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies:^[3]

Gonypetinae[]

• tribe Armenini
  • Stal, 1877
• tribe
  • subtribe Compsomantina
    • Compsomantis Saussure, 1872
  • subtribe Gonypetina
    • Bimantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Dimantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Stal, 1877
    • Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Gimantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Gonypeta Saussure, 1869
    • Beier, 1942
    • Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Stal, 1877
  • subtribe Gonypetyllina
    • Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Gonypetyllis Wood-Mason, 1891
    • Beier, 1964
  • subtribe Humbertiellina
    • Humbertiella Saussure, 1869
    • Schwarz & Ehrmann, 2017
    • Theopompa Stal, 1877

Iridopteryginae[]

• tribe Amantini
  • Amantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
• tribe Iridopterygini
  • subtribe Iridopterygina
    • Hapalopeza Stal, 1877
    • Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • Saussure, 1869
    • Saussure, 1870
    • Henry, 1931
    • Uvarov, 1927
    • Spilomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • subtribe Tricondylomimina
    • Tricondylomimus Chopard, 1930

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Gonypetidae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Iridopteryginae at Wikispecies