Stagmatopterinae was a subfamily of the Mantidae, a family of insects within the order of mantises (Mantodea). Many of the genera have now been placed in the subfamily Vatinae.[1]

Stagmatopterinae
photograph of a large green adult female mantid insect
Adult female Stagmatoptera supplicaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Stagmatopterinae
Genus

7 genera, see text

Genera

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adult male Stagmatoptera supplicaria in the Amazon Rainforest near Nauta, Peru

The Stagmatopterinae subfamily consisted of 6 genera, and 50 species.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mantodea Species File: subfamily Vatinae (retrieved 18 July 2020)
  2. ^ Ehrmann, Reinhard (2002). Mantodea Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt (in German). Münster: Natur und Tier-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-931587-60-4.
  3. ^ a b South American Green Mantis Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Lombardo F and Umbriaco R (2011). "Taxonomic re-evaluation of Parastagmatoptera abnormis Beier, 1963 (Dictyoptera, Mantidae: Stagmatopterinae): An unusual case of "parasite-induced" synonymy" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2735: 31–34. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2735.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334.
  5. ^ [1] Mantis Study Group MSG NL 2 (November 1996)