Angelidae
Family of praying mantises
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Angelidae[2] is a family of mantises found in tropical Central and South Americas.
| Angela | |
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| Angela guianensis (male) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Angelidae Giglio-Tos, 1927[1] |
| Genus: | Angela Serville, 1839 |
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Taxonomy and systematics
The family Angelidae was formerly classified as a tribe or a subfamily of the family Mantidae and for a brief period also included the restored Asian tribe Euchomenellini[3] The family as presently circumscribed is monotypic, containing the single genus Angela.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Angela:
- Angela armata
- Angela brachyptera
- Angela championi
- Angela decolor
- Angela guianensis (Rehn, 1906)
- Angela inermis
- Angela lemoulti
- Angela maxima
- Angela minor
- Angela miranda
- Angela ornata
- Angela perpulchra
- Angela peruviana
- Angela purpurascens
- Angela quinquemaculata
- Angela saussurii
- Angela subhyalina
- Angela trifasciata
- Angela werneri
