Family Empusidae Burmeister 1838 (mantis)
Insecta - Mantodea - Empusidae
Alternative spelling: Empusinae
Full reference: H. C. Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Zweiter Band. Besondere Entomologie. Zweite Abtheilung. Kaukerfe. Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte; vulgo Orthoptera) 397-756
Parent taxon: Hymenopoidea according to C. J. Schwarz and R. Roy 2019
See also Piton 1940, Svensen and Whiting 2009 and Wang and Jin 1995
Sister taxon: Hymenopodidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Empusidae in the database