Eremiaphilidae

Eremiaphilidae is a small Old World family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Eremiaphila. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,[1] this family now contains the subfamily Tarachodinae, which includes tribes and genera previously placed in the now obsolete Tarachodidae.

Eremiaphilidae
Heteronutarsus aegyptiacus at Wadi Elrayan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Family: Eremiaphilidae
Wood-Mason, 1889

The new placement means that this taxon is characteristic of the superfamily Eremiaphiloidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Genera in this family have been recorded from: Africa and Asia.[2]

Subfamilies, tribes and selected genera

The Mantodea Species File lists four subfamilies:[2]

Eremiaphilinae

Species in this small, original subfamily are frequently wingless or brachypterous, and commonly encountered in desert environments, from Egypt to temperate Asia. Their coloration often matches that of the sand or rocks in the habitat.

  • Eremiaphila Lefebvre, 1835
  • Heteronutarsus Lefebvre, 1835

Iridinae
  • tribe Didymocoryphini (monotypic)
    • Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877
  • tribe Dysaulini
    • Dysaules Stal, 1877
  • tribe Iridini
  • tribe Schizocephalini (monotypic: was subfamily Schizocephalinae)
Parathespinae
  • Parathespis Saussure, 1869

Tarachodinae
Tarachodes sp.
tribe Oxyelaeini
  • Charieis Burr, 1900
  • Oxyelaea Giglio-Tos, 1917
tribe Tarachodini
  • subtribe Antistiina
  • subtribe Tarachodina
    • Galepsus Stal, 1876
    • Metagalepsus Roy, 1971
    • Nesogalepsus
    • Nothogalepsus
    • Oxyophthalmellus
    • Paragalepsus
    • Paralygdamia
    • Paroxyophthalmus
    • Plastogalepsus
    • Pseudogalepsus
    • Pyrgomantis
    • Tarachodella
    • Tarachodes Burmeister, 1838
    • Tarachodula
    • Tuberculepsus Roy, 2008
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References
  1. Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
  2. Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 12 July 2020)
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