Thespinae

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Thespinae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Family: Thespidae
Subfamily: Thespinae

Thespinae is a subfamily of mantids in the family Thespidae. There are 16 genera and at least 40 described species: found in Australasia, Central and South America.[1][2][3]

Genera[]

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Thespinae:[4]

Tribe Oligonychini
  • Subtribe Oligonychina
  • Subtribe Pogonogasterina
Tribe Thespini
  • Hebard, 1922
  • Stal, 1877
  • Giglio-Tos, 1917
  • Rehn, 1904
  • Werner, 1909
  • Thespis Serville, 1831

References[]

  1. ^ Rivera, Julio; Svenson, Gavin J. (2016). "The Neotropical "polymorphic earless praying mantises" – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (3). doi:10.1111/syen.12178.
  2. ^ Patel, Shveta; Singh, Garima; Singh, Rajendra (2016). "A checklist of global distribution of Liturgusidae and Thespidae (Mantodea: Dictyoptera)". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 4 (6).
  3. ^ Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Thespinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ "subfamily Thespinae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.

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