Chlidonoptera is an African genus of praying mantis in the family Hymenopodidae and tribe Hymenopodini.[1]

Chlidonoptera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Hymenopodidae
Tribe: Hymenopodini
Genus: Chlidonoptera
Karsch, 1892
Species
Synonyms
  • Anabomistria Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Bomistria Saussure, 1898

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References

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  1. ^ [1] Svenson et al. 2015. Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant-mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with a new suprageneric classification. Systematic Entomology 40(4), 789–834