Majangidae

The Majangidae^[1] are a revived (2019) family of praying mantids from Madagascar.

Majangidae
Adult female Brancsikia freyi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Majangidae Giglio-Tos. 1915

As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,^[2] this family consists of genera in two subfamilies previously placed in the Liturgusidae (Majanginae) and Deroplatyinae. The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Epaphroditoidea (of the clade Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea.

Subfamilies and Genera

The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies:^[3]

Brancsikiinae

• Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 2 spp.

Majanginae

• tribe Danuriellini
  • Danuriella Westwood, 1889: 3 spp.
• tribe Majangini
  • Liturgusella Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • monotypic L. malagassa Saussure & Zehntner, 1895
  • Majanga Wood-Mason, 1891: 3 spp.
    • Majanga basilaris Westwood, 1889 - type species

References

1. Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull, soc. ent. Ita. 46.
2. Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
3. Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 1 August 2020)

External links

• Media related to Majangidae at Wikimedia Commons