Biology:Thespinae

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Short description: Subfamily of praying mantises

Thespinae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Family: Thespidae
Subfamily: Thespinae

Thespinae is a subfamily of mantises in the family Thespidae. There are 16 genera and at least 40 described species: found in most continents.[1][2][3]

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Thespinae:[4]

Tribe Oligonychini
  • Subtribe Oligonychina
  • Subtribe Pogonogasterina
    • Carrikerella Hebard, 1921
    • Pogonogaster Rehn, 1918
    • Thesprotiella Giglio-Tos, 1915
Tribe Thespini
  • Macromusonia Hebard, 1922
  • Musonia Stal, 1877
  • Musoniola Giglio-Tos, 1917
  • Paramusonia Rehn, 1904
  • Pseudomusonia Werner, 1909
  • Thespis Serville, 1831

References

  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. Patel, Shveta; Singh, Garima; Singh, Rajendra (2016). "A checklist of global distribution of Liturgusidae and Thespidae (Mantodea: Dictyoptera)". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4 (6). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311963370. 
  3. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Thespinae". http://Mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1185851. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 
  4. "subfamily Thespinae: Mantodea Species File". http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1185851. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q21225001 entry