Epaphroditidae Explained

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]

Subfamilies and genera

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

Epaphroditinae

tribe Callimantini

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

tribe Epaphroditini

• Epaphrodita Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

• Gonatista Saussure, 1869
• Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)

Now moved

• Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.

Notes and References

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. http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1182651 Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020)