Sibylla (mantis)
Sibylla | |
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S. pretiosa in South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Hymenopodidae |
Tribe: | Sibylini |
Genus: | Sibylla Stål, 1856 |
Sibylla[1] is a genus of mantises in the family Hymenopodidae[2] and characteristic of the subfamily Sibyllinae.
Description[]
Sibylla species have a long and thin prothorax with lateral and dorsal projections. The head bears an erect process with four sideways spikes.[3]
Classification[]
The Mantodea Species File lists:[4]
- Subgenus Sibylla
- (Giglio-Tos, 1915)
- (Roy, 1975)
- (Rehn, 1912)
- (Giglio-Tos, 1915)
- (Roy, 1996)
- (Roy, 1996)
- (Gerstaecker, 1889)
- Sibylla pretiosa (Stål, 1856) - type species
- Subgenus Sibyllopsis
- (Giglio-Tos, 1915)
- (Roy, 1996)
- (Karsch 1894)
- (Roy, 1996)
- (Roy, 1963)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Stål C (1856) Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 13: 168.
- ^ ITIS Catalogue of Life
- ^ Picker, Mike; et al. (2004). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-77007-061-5.
- ^ Mantodea.speciesfile.org: Genus Sibylla
Categories:
- Mantodea genera
- Sibyllidae
- Taxa named by Carl Stål