Tenodera
Tenodera | |
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Adult male Tenodera sinensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Mantidae |
Tribe: | Tenoderini |
Genus: | Tenodera Burmeister, 1838 |
Type species | |
Mantis fasciata (Olivier, 1792)
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Species | |
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Tenodera[1] is a genus of mantis in the family Mantidae which contains several species of praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found primarily in Africa, Asia and Australia, but also North America.[2]
Description[]
Specifically, mantids in this genus can be identified by their mid and hind femora which contain an apical spine.
Species[]
The following species are recognised in the genus Tenodera:[2]
- Tenodera acuticauda (Yang, 1997)
- Tenodera angustipennis (Saussure, 1869) (narrow-winged mantis)
- Tenodera aridifolia (Stoll, 1813)
- Tenodera australasiae (Leach, 1814) (purple-winged mantis)
- (Wang, 1992)
- (Burmeister, 1838)
- (Blanchard, 1853)
- Tenodera fasciata (Olivier, 1792)
- (Saussure, 1870)
- (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
- Tenodera parasinensis (Otte & Spearman, 2004)
- (Beier, 1929)
- (Uvarov, 1935)
- Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) (Chinese mantis)
- (Werner, 1929)
- Tenodera superstitiosa (Fabricius, 1781)
See also[]
- List of mantis genera and species#Genus Tenodera
References[]
- ^ Burmeister H (1838) Handb. Ent., Burm. 2: 534.
- ^ a b Mantodea Species File (v. 5.0, retrieved 13 August 2021)
External links[]
Categories:
- Mantidae
- Mantodea genera
- Taxa named by Hermann Burmeister