| Photinaidae | |
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| Cardioptera brachyptera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Photinaidae |
Photinaidae is a family of mantises in the order Neotropical Mantodea, in the superfamily Acanthopoidea. There are about 11 genera and more than 40 described species in Photinaidae.
Genera
These 11 genera belong to the family Photinaidae:
- Cardioptera Burmeister, 1838
- Chromatophotina Rivera, 2010
- Hicetia Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
- Macromantis Saussure, 1871
- Metriomantis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
- Microphotina Beier, 1935
- Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897
- Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915
- Photina Burmeister, 1838
- Photinella Giglio-Tos, 1915
- Photiomantis Toledo Piza, 1968
References
- "Photinaidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Photinaidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
Further reading
- Agudelo Rondón, Antonio Arnovis; Lombardo, Francesco; Jantsch, Lauro José (2007). "Checklist of the neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 8 (2): 105–158.
- Brannoch, S. K.; Wieland, F.; Rivera, J.; Klass, K-D; et al. (2017). "Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)". ZooKeys (696): 1–100. Bibcode:2017ZooK..696....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5673847. PMID 29200926.
- Svenson, Gavin J.; Whiting, Michael F. (2004). "Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator". Systematic Entomology. 29 (3): 359–370. Bibcode:2004SysEn..29..359S. doi:10.1111/j.0307-6970.2004.00240.x. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 83959942.
External links
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