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]

Epaphroditidae
A Makro of a small insect looking like tree bark and having six legs sitting on a tree.
Grizzled Mantis (Gonatista grisea)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Giglio-Tos, 1915
Genera

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Synonyms

Acanthopsites,
Epaphroditinae.

Subfamilies and genera

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The Mantodea Species File[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:

tribe Callimantini
  • Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)
tribe Epaphroditini

Gonatistinae

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Now moved

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References

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  1. ^ Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 98.
  2. ^ Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.
  3. ^ Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)
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