Acontistidae

Acontistini

Acontistini

Tribe of praying mantises

Acontistini is a tribe of neotropical mantises in the superfamily Acanthopoidea, and family Acanthopidae. There are 7 genera and more than 30 described species in Acontistini. In 2016, several genera were moved from Acanthopidae to a newly created family Acontistidae,[1] but this has not been accepted in most recent classifications.[2][3]

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Genera

  • Acontista Saussure, 1872
  • Astollia Kirby, 1904
  • Callibia Stal, 1877
  • Ovalimantis Roy, 2015
  • Paratithrone Lombardo, 1996
  • Raptrix Terra, 1995
  • Tithrone Stal, 1877

References

  1. [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): 607–649. doi:10.1111/syen.12178.
  2. [2]
    "family Acanthopidae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  3. [3]
    Mantodea Species File

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