Sphodromantis Stål, 1871

Mohammad, Salwa Kamal, Alla, Sohair Mohammad Gad, El-Hamouly, Hayam, Ehrmann, Reinhard & Nasser, Mohamed Gemal El-Den, 2011, Mantodea of Egypt, Zootaxa 3044, pp. 1-27 : 18

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.278837

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6182932

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scientific name

Sphodromantis Stål, 1871
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Genus Sphodromantis Stål, 1871 View in CoL

Sphodromantis Stål, 1871: 390 View in CoL .

Remarks. Several studies have treated this genus and Hierodula as a single genus or subgenus (e.g., Kaltenbach 1982, Oliveira 2009) but they are easily distinguished by the presence of a tubercle between the base of the antennae and the eye in Sphodromantis and the absence of this tubercle in Hierodula ( Bragg, 1997) . The most recent study treated them as separate genera ( Roy 2010).

Bragg, P. (1997) Distinguish between Sphodromantis and Hierodula. Mantis Study Group Newsletter 5, p. 5.

Kaltenbach, A. P. (1982): Insects of Saudi Arabia. Mantodea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 4, 29 - 72.

Oliveira, D. (2009) Key to praying mantids - Revisions - Key to Families. <http: // www. earthlife. net / insects / mant-key. html> (accessed 10.08.2011).

Roy, R. (2010) Mises au point sur le genre Sphodromantis Stal, 1871 (Mantodea, Mantidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France 115 (3), 345 - 366.

Stal, C. (1871) Orthoptera quaedam africana descripsit C. Stal. Ofversigt Kongliga Vetenskapsakademiens Forhandlingar 28 (3), 375 - 401.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Mantidae