Majangidae Explained

The Majangidae^[1] are a revived (2019) family of praying mantids from Madagascar.

As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,^[2] this family consists of genera in two subfamilies previously placed in the Liturgusidae (Majanginae) and Deroplatyinae. The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Epaphroditoidea (of the clade Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea.

Subfamilies and Genera

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

Brancsikiinae

• Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 2 spp.

Majanginae

• tribe Danuriellini
  • Danuriella Westwood, 1889: 3 spp.
• tribe Majangini
  • Liturgusella Giglio-Tos, 1915
    • monotypic L. malagassa Saussure & Zehntner, 1895
  • Majanga Wood-Mason, 1891: 3 spp.
    • Majanga basilaris Westwood, 1889 - type species

Notes and References

1. Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull, soc. ent. Ita. 46.
2. 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.
3. http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1240175 Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 1 August 2020)