Deroplatyidae

The Deroplatyidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Deroplatys. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,[1] the subfamily Deroplatyinae has been moved here from the previously-structured family Mantidae.

Deroplatyidae
Deroplatys gorochovi, Vietnam
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Family: Deroplatyidae

The new placement is in superfamily Mantoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Genera in this family have been recorded from: Africa, India, Indochina and Malesia.[2]

Subfamilies, Tribes and selected Genera

The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies:[2]

Deroplatyinae

Popinae
Popa spurca adult
  • tribe Leptocolini (Africa)
    • subtribe Euchomenina
      • Euchomena Saussure, 1870
    • subtribe Leptocolina
      • Afrothespis Roy, 2006
      • Agrionopsis Werner, 1908
      • Leptocola Gerstaecker, 1883
      • Stenopyga Karsch, 1892
  • tribe Popini (Africa)
    • Danuria Stal, 1856
    • †Lithophotina Sharov, 1962
    • Macrodanuria Sjostedt, 1900
    • Macropopa Giglio-Tos, 1914
    • Neodanuria La Greca & Lombardo, 1986
    • Popa Serville, 1839

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 11 July 2020)
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