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Empusidae (disused)

Insecta - Mantodea - Empusidae

Taxonomy
Empusidae was named by Burmeister (1838). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Empusinae by Piton (1940).

It was assigned to Mantidae by Piton (1940); to Mantoidea by Wang and Jin (1995); to Cernomantodea by Svensen and Whiting (2009); and to Hymenopoidea by Schwarz and Roy (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1838Empusidae Burmeister p. 544
1940Empusinae Piton p. 135
1995Empusidae Wang and Jin p. 197
2009Empusidae Svensen and Whiting
2019Empusidae Schwarz and Roy p. 117

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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
orderMantodeaBurmeister 1838
RankNameAuthor
suborderNeomantodea
infraorderEumantodea
Spinomantodea
Schizomantodea
Artimantodea
Cernomantodea
Metamantodea
LobipediaSaussure 1870
Mantimorpha
Heteromantodea
Pareumantodea
Calomantodea
Promantidea
Mantidea
superfamilyHymenopoidea
familyEmpusidae
familyEmpusidae

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.

Fm. Empusidae Burmeister 1838
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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
Collections
No collection or age range data are available