Dactylopteryx

Dactylopteryx is the type genus of praying mantids in the revived family Dactylopterygidae. The oldest documented instance of the species appeared in "Annual issues of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg", by Werner Karl Frederick Hall.^[1]

Dactylopteryx
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Dactylopterygidae
Genus:	Dactylopteryx Karsch, 1892
Synonyms
Phloeomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915

Species

The Mantodea Species File lists:^[1]

• Dactylopteryx flexuosa Karsch, 1892
• Dactylopteryx intermedia Beier, 1963
• Dactylopteryx orientalis Werner, 1906