Mantoididae
Family of praying mantises
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Mantoididae is a family of mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. The family was formerly represented by the sole genus Mantoida, until the genus Paramantoida[1] was described in 2014 and Vespamantoida[2] in 2019. The family differs from the closely related Chaeteessidae in having an apical claw on the fore tibiae which are also less curved. Males have ocelli and a cylindrical body shape, unlike the dorsoventrally flattened Chaeteessidae. The cerci are also shorter.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Mantoididae Giglio-Tos, 1927 |
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Genera
The following genera are placed in the family Mantoididae:[3]
- Mantoida - 11 species,
- Paramantoida - 1 species Paramantoida amazonica, typically dark colored with white spots resembling certain wasps[1]
- Vespamantoida - 2 species, resemble some ichneumonid wasps[4]
- †Pseudomantoida Schubnel and Nel 2019 Oise amber, France, Eocene (Ypresian)