Epaphroditidae

Epaphroditidae
A Makro of a small insect looking like tree bark and having six legs sitting on a tree.
Grizzled Mantis (Gonatista grisea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Giglio-Tos, 1915
Genera

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Synonyms

Acanthopsites,
Epaphroditinae.

Epaphroditidae[1] is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.[2]

  1. ^ Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 98.
  2. ^ Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.