Liturgusidae Explained

Liturgusidae is a family of praying mantises in the new (2019) Neotropical superfamily Acanthopoidea. A substantial number of genera, previously placed here, have recently been moved to the new or revived other families:^[1]

• • Dactylopterygidae Gonypetidae
• Epaphroditidae: subfamily Gonatistinae
• Majangidae: subfamily Majanginae
• Mantidae: subfamily Mellierinae
• Nanomantidae: subfamily Fulciniinae

Tribes and Genera

The Mantodea Species File now lists two tribes, containing the following genera:

tribe Hagiomantini

• Hagiomantis Serville, 1839

tribe Liturgusini

• Corticomantis Svenson, 2014 - monotypic (Corticomantis atricoxata (Beier, 1931))
• Fuga Svenson, 2014
• Liturgusa Saussure, 1869 (lichen mantises)
• Velox Svenson, 2014 - monotypic (Velox wielandi Svenson, 2014)

References

• http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01583p035f.pdf Spermatophore feeding and mating behaviour in praying mantids (Mantodea: Liturgusidae), G. I. Holwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

Notes and References

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00379271.2018.1556567 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.