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Epaphroditidae
Family of praying mantises From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Epaphroditidae[1] is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.[2]
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Subfamilies and genera
The Mantodea Species File[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:
Epaphroditinae
- tribe Callimantini
- Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)
- tribe Epaphroditini
- Epaphrodita Serville, 1831
Gonatistinae
- Gonatista Saussure, 1869
- Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)
Now moved
- Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.
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