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Mantoidea

Insecta - Mantodea

Taxonomy
Mantoidea was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. Its type is Gryllus (Mantis).

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Cernomantodea by Svensen and Whiting (2009).

It was assigned to Mantodea by Wang and Jin (1995); to Eumantodea by Grimaldi (2003); and to Mantidea by Schwarz and Roy (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Mantoidea Latreille p. 270
1995Mantoidea Wang and Jin p. 197
2003Mantoidea Grimaldi p. 44
2019Mantoidea Schwarz and Roy p. 119

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
orderMantodeaBurmeister 1838
suborderNeomantodea
infraorderEumantodea
—Spinomantodea
—Schizomantodea
—Artimantodea
—Cernomantodea
—Metamantodea
—LobipediaSaussure 1870
—Mantimorpha
—Heteromantodea
—Pareumantodea
—Calomantodea
—Promantidea
—Mantidea
superfamilyMantoidea
superfamilyMantoidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Superfm. Mantoidea Latreille 1802
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Fm. Mantidae Latreille 1802 [praying mantis]
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G. †Eobruneria Cockerell 1913
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†Eobruneria tessellata Cockerell 1913
Subfm. Mantinae Latreille 1802
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G. Mantis Linnaeus 1758
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†Mantis boettingensis Zeuner 1931
†Mantis protogaea Heer 1849
Mantis religiosa Linnaeus 1758 [praying mantis]
Invalid names: Choeradodidae Chopard 1949 [synonym], Choeradodinae Saussure 1869 [empty], Vatinae Stal 1887 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Piacenzian or 37.20000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Eobruneria tessellata (124624)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Wurttemberg) Mantis boettingensis (113752)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Mantis protogaea (115304)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Germany (Niedersachsen) Mantis religiosa (109196)