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Tropidomantinae
Eomantis guttatipennis (previously placed in Tropidomantis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Nanomantidae
Subfamily:	Tropidomantinae

Tropidomantinae is a subfamily of mantises in the new (2019) family Nanomantidae. Within the single tribe Tropidomantini there are six genera, distributed in Asia and the Pacific.

Tribes and Genera

The Mantodea Species File lists two tribes:

• tribe Epsomantini (monotypic)
  • Epsomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 (monotypic)
• tribe Tropidomantini
  • Eomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Oligocanthopus Beier, 1935 - monotypic O. ornata
  • Pliacanthopus Giglio-Tos, 1927
  • Sinomantis Beier, 1933 - monotypic S. denticulata
  • Tropidomantis Stal, 1877

NB: Several genera, previously placed here, have now been moved to the Fulciniinae, Hapalomantinae and Nanomantinae. Xanthomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 is a synonym of Pliacanthopus (above).

References

1. Schwarz, Christian J.; Roy, Roger (2019). "The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 55 (2): 101–196. doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567.
2. ^ Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "subfamily Tropidomantinae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2020-07-23.

Further reading

• 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. 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. S2CID 83959942.

• Nanomantidae
• Mantodea subfamilies