Pseudoharpax

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Pseudoharpax
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Pseudoharpax virescens (adult female)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Galinthiadidae
Genus: Pseudoharpax
Saussure, 1870
Synonyms

Harpagites

Pseudoharpax[1] is a genus of African praying mantids in the family Galinthiadidae.[2]

Species[]

The Mantodea Species File lists:[2]

  1. Beier, 1930
  2. La Greca, 1950
  3. La Greca, 1954
  4. La Greca, 1954
  5. Giglio-Tos, 1915
  6. Bolivar, 1908
  7. Giglio-Tos, 1915
  8. La Greca, 1954
  9. Giglio-Tos, 1915
  10. Pseudoharpax virescens Serville, 1839 - type species (P. virescens virescens)

Gallery[]

  • Dead adult female Pseudoharpax virescens

  • Dead adult female P. virescens

  • P. virescens nymph, probably in the second-instar stage

  • P. virescens nymphs threatening each other, in the older nymphal stages, probably subadult

  • Mating pair of P. virescens

  • Adult female P. virescens laying an ootheca

  • P. virescens hatching

  • First instar P. virescens nymph

References[]

  1. ^ Saussure, Henri de (1870). "Additions au Système des Mantides". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 3 (5): 241.
  2. ^ a b Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 5 August 2021)

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