Leptomantella
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| Leptomantella | |
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| Leptomantella cf. tonkinae found in Cát Tiên National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Superorder: | Dictyoptera |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Leptomantellidae |
| Genus: | Leptomantella Burmeister, 1838 |
| Synonyms | |
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Leptomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915[1] | |
Leptomantella[2] is a genus of praying mantids and typical of the new (2019) family Leptomantellidae. Species have been recorded from Asia.[3][4]
Previously placed here as a subgenus, the genus Aetaella was erected by Hebard in 1920 and has now been restored.[5][6]
