Mantinae

Belongs within: Mantoidea.

The Mantinae are medium-sized to large mantids bearing four discoidal spines on the fore femur (Balderson 1991).

<==MantinaeZ02
    |--Pseudomantis albofimbriataR96
    |--Sphodropoda tristisR96
    |--Rhodomantis pulchellaR96
    |--Acontiothespis eximia (Pascoe 1882) [=Callimantis eximia]R18
    |--Angela quinquemaculata (Olivier 1792) [=Mantis quinquemaculata]R18
    |--Macromantis ovalifolia (Stoll 1813) [=Mantis ovalifolia]R18
    |--Brunneria brasiliensisR15
    |--Thesprotia viduaR15
    |--Nullabora flavoguttataB91
    |--ArchimantisR96
    |    |--A. latistylusR96
    |    `--A. sobrinaB91
    |--TenoderaR96
    |    |--T. aridifoliaTW05
    |    `--T. australasiaeR96
    |--HierodulaR96
    |    |--H. (Tamolanica) atricoxisR96
    |    |    |--H. a. atricoxisR96
    |    |    `--H. a. grandisR96
    |    |--H. crassaK74
    |    |--H. saussuriiRD77
    |    |--H. tamolanaK70
    |    `--H. venosa Olivier 1792 [incl. Mantis vitrea Stoll 1813, H. vitrea]SB07
    `--Mantis Linnaeus 1758L58
         |--M. bicornis (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) bicornis]L58
         |--M. boettingensisZ02
         |--M. crenaticollisM62
         |--M. faustaL02
         |--M. gigas (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) gigas]L58
         |--M. gongylodes (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) gongylodes]L58
         |--M. octospilotaR96
         |--M. oratoria (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) oratorius]L58
         |--M. paganaL02
         |--M. pauperataL02
         |--M. phthisica (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) phthisicus]L58
         |--M. pectinicornisL02
         |--M. precaria (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) precarius]L58
         |--M. protogaeaZ02
         |--M. pusillaL02
         |--M. religiosa (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) religiosus]L58
         |--M. strumaria (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) strumarius]L58
         `--M. tricolor (Linnaeus 1758) [=Gryllus (Mantis) tricolor]L58

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B91] Balderson, J. 1991. Mantodea (praying mantids). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2^nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 348–356. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

[K70] Key, K. H. L. 1970. Mantodea (praying mantids). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers pp. 294–301. Melbourne University Press.

[K74] Key, K. H. L. 1974. Mantodea (praying mantids). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers. Supplement 1974 pp. 40–41.Melbourne University Press.

[L02] Latreille, P. A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes vol. 3. Familles naturelles des genres. F. Dufart: Paris.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[M62] Menke, A. S. 1962. A new genus of digger wasps from South America (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75: 303–306.

[R15] Rehn, J. A. G. 1915. A further contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Argentina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67 (2): 270–292.

[R18] Rehn, J. A. G. 1918. On a collection of Orthoptera from the State of Pará, Brazil. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 70: 144–236, pls 1–2.

[R96] Rentz, D. 1996. Grasshopper Country: The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. University of New South Wales Press: Sydney.

[RD77] Richards, O. W., & R. G. Davies. 1977. Imms’ General Textbook of Entomology 10^th ed. vol. 2. Classification and Biology. Chapman and Hall: London.

[SB07] Svenson, G. J., & M. A. Branham. 2007. Photinini LeConte, 1881 (Insecta, Coleoptera) and Photininae Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Insecta, Mantodea): proposed resolution of homonymy between family-group names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 64 (4): 243–251.

[TW05] Terry, M. D., & M. F. Whiting. 2005. Mantophasmatodea and phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects. Cladistics 21: 240–257.

[Z02] Zherikhin, V. V. 2002. Order Mantida Latreille, 1802. The mantises (=Mantodea Burmeister, 1838). In: Rasnitsyn, A. P., & D. L. J. Quicke (eds) History of Insects pp. 273–276. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.