Amelidae Explained

The mantis family Amelidae^[1] was previously placed in the family Mantidae. Species have been recorded from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Genera

The Mantodea Species File^[2] lists a single subfamily Amelinae, comprising two tribes:

Amelini

• Ameles Burmeister, 1838
• Apteromantis Werner, 1931
• Pseudoyersinia Kirby, 1904

Litaneutriini

• Litaneutria Saussure, 1892
• Yersinia Saussure, 1869 - monotypic Yersinia mexicana Saussure, 1859
• Yersiniops Hebard, 1931

Fossil species

• Litaneutria pilosuspedes Terriquez et al. 2022^[3]

Notes and References

1. Giglio-Tos (1919) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 49: 55.
2. http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1183236 Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 10 July 2020)
3. Terríquez-Beltrán . J. . Riquelme . F. . Varela-Hernández . F. . 2022-10-31 . A new species of mantis (Insecta: Mantodea: Amelidae) from the Miocene Amber-Lagerstätte in Mexico . Historical Biology . 35 . 11 . en . 2127–2134 . 10.1080/08912963.2022.2134782 . 253280592 . 0891-2963.