Majangidae
Family of praying mantises
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The Majangidae[1] are a revived (2019) family of praying mantids from Madagascar.
| Majangidae | |
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| Adult female Brancsikia freyi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Superorder: | Dictyoptera |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Majangidae Giglio-Tos. 1915 |
As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,[2] this family consists of genera in two subfamilies previously placed in the Liturgusidae (Majanginae) and Deroplatyinae. The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Epaphroditoidea (of the clade Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea.
Subfamilies and genera
The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies:[3]
- Brancsikiinae
- Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 2 spp.
- Majanginae
- tribe Danuriellini
- Danuriella Westwood, 1889: 3 spp.
- tribe Majangini
- Liturgusella Giglio-Tos, 1915
- monotypic L. malagassa Saussure & Zehntner, 1895
- Majanga Wood-Mason, 1891: 3 spp.
- Majanga basilaris Westwood, 1889 - type species
- Liturgusella Giglio-Tos, 1915
