List of mantids of Trinidad and Tobago explained

The mantids of Trinidad and Tobago are part of the invertebrate fauna of both islands, part of the Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago.

Beginning with Lawrence Bruner in 1906 ^[1] describing 8 species on the island of Trinidad, then followed by Beebe, Crane & Hughes-Schrader in 1952^[2] and Kevan in 1953.^[3] Both papers in the 1950s increased the number of species identified.

Mantids by family

Mantoididae

• Mantoida fulgidipennis Westwood, 1889^{[1] [2] [3]}

Thespidae

• Thespinae
  • Musonia surinama (Saussure, 1869)^{[1] [2] [3]}
  • Thespis media (Giglio-Tos, 1916)^[3]
  • Macromusonia sp. Hebard, 1922 ^{[2] [3]}
• Oligonicinae
  • Thesprotia filum (Lichtenstein, 1796)^{[2] [3]}
• Miopteryginae
  • Bantiella trinitatis Giglio-Tos 1915 ^[3]

Acanthopidae

• Acontistinae
  • Acontista multicolor (Saussure, 1870)^{[1] [2] [3]}
  • Tithrone roseipennis (Saussure, 1877)^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Acanthopinae
  • Acanthops parafalcata Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004 ^[4]

Mantidae

• Angelinae
  • Angela quinquemaculata (Olivier, 1792)^[2]
• Stagmomantinae
  • Stagmomantis carolina (Johannson, 1763)^{[1] [2]}

• Stagmatopterinae
  • Stagmatoptera septentrionalis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894^{[2] [3]}
  • Parastagmatoptera unipunctata Burmeister, 1838^[2]
  • Oxyopsis rubicunda Stoll, 1813^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Vatinae
  • Vates lobata (Fabricius, 1798)^{[2] [3]}
  • Phyllovates tripunctata (Burmeister, 1838)
• Photinae
  • Paraphotina reticulata (Saussure 1871)
  • Brunneria subaptera Saussure 1869

Liturgusidae

• Liturgusinae
  • Liturgusa trinidadensis Svenson 2014^[5]

Notes and References

1. Bruner L. (1906). "Report on the Orthoptera of Trinidad, West Indies." Journal of the New York Entomological Society, New York. Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 135-165.
2. [William Beebe|Beebe W.]
3. Kevan D. K. McE. (1953). "A preliminary list of the Mantodea of Trinidad, B.W.I." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, . Vol 6 Iss. 71, pp. 809-816
4. Lombardo F., Ippolito S. (2004). "Revision of the species of Acanthops Serville 1831 (Mantodea, Mantidae, Acanthopinae) with comments on their phylogeny." Annals of the Entomological Society of America. Vol. 97, No. 6, pp. 1076-1102.
5. Svenson g.j. (2014). "Revision of the Neotropical bark mantis genus Liturgusa Saussure, 1869 (Insecta, Mantodea, Liturgusini)." Zookeys. Vol. 390, pp. 1-214.