Acanthopidae
{{Short description|Family of praying mantises}}
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Acanthopidae is a family of South American mantises consisting of 16 genera in the order Mantodea. The group was first formally split off as a separate family by the German entomologist Reinhard Ehrmann in 2002. In 2016, five genera (Acontista, Callibia, Paratithrone, Raptrix, and Tithrone) were moved from Acanthopidae to the newly created family Acontistidae, but this has not been accepted in most recent classifications.{{Cite web|title=family Acanthopidae: Mantodea Species File|url=http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1185476|access-date=2020-11-10|website=mantodea.speciesfile.org}}
Genera
The following genera are recognised in the family Acanthopidae:
- Acanthops Serville, 1831
- Acontista Saussure, 1872
- Astollia Kirby, 1904
- Callibia Stal, 1877
- Decimiana Uvarov, 1940
- Lagrecacanthops Roy, 2004
- Metacanthops Agudelo, Maldaner & Rafael, 2019
- Metilia Stal, 1877
- Miracanthops Roy, 2004
- Ovalimantis Roy, 2015
- Paratithrone Lombardo, 1996
- Plesiacanthops Chopard, 1913
- Pseudacanthops Saussure, 1870
- Raptrix Terra, 1995
- Stenophylla Westwood, 1845
- Tithrone Stal, 1877
See also
References
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Ehrmann, R. 2002. Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier, Münster.
{{Cite journal
| title = The Neotropical "polymorphic earless praying mantises" – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)
| date = 2016
| last1 = Rivera | first1 = Julio
| last2 = Svenson | first2 = Gavin J.
| journal = Systematic Entomology
| volume = 41| issue = 3
| pages = 607–649
| doi = 10.1111/syen.12178
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2016SysEn..41..607R
}}
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