Photinaidae

Photinaidae is a family of mantises in the order Neotropical Mantodea, in the superfamily Acanthopoidea. There are about 11 genera and more than 40 described species in Photinaidae.^[1][2]

Photinaidae
Cardioptera brachyptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Photinaidae

Genera

These 11 genera belong to the family Photinaidae:

• Cardioptera Burmeister, 1838
• Chromatophotina Rivera, 2010
• Hicetia Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• Macromantis Saussure, 1871
• Metriomantis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• Microphotina Beier, 1935
• Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897
• Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915
• Photina Burmeister, 1838
• Photinella Giglio-Tos, 1915
• Photiomantis Toledo Piza, 1968

References

1. "Photinaidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
2. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B. D. (2019). "family Photinaidae". Mantodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-11.

Further reading

• Agudelo Rondón, Antonio Arnovis; Lombardo, Francesco; Jantsch, Lauro José (2007). "Checklist of the neotropical mantids (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 8 (2): 105–158.
• Brannoch, S. K.; Wieland, F.; Rivera, J.; Klass, K-D; et al. (2017). "Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)". ZooKeys (696): 1–100. Bibcode:2017ZooK..696....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5673847. PMID 29200926.
• Svenson, Gavin J.; Whiting, Michael F. (2004). "Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator". Systematic Entomology. 29 (3): 359–370. Bibcode:2004SysEn..29..359S. doi:10.1111/j.0307-6970.2004.00240.x. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 83959942.

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