Epaphrodita

Epaphrodita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Epaphroditidae
Subfamily: Epaphroditinae
Genus: Epaphrodita
Serville, 1831[1][2]

Epaphrodita is a genus of praying mantids in the family Epaphroditidae.[1] It is the type genus of its family.[3] It is distributed in Hispaniola and Saint Lucia.[4]

Species

There are two[4] or three recognized species:[1][2]

  • Epaphrodita lobivertex Lombardo & Perez-Gelabert, 2004
  • Epaphrodita musarum Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 (=Epaphrodita dentifrons Saussure, 1872)
  • Epaphrodita undulata Saussure, 1870

Moulin and colleagues consider Epaphrodita undulata a synonym of Epaphrodita musarum.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Epaphrodita Serville, 1831". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Epaphrodita Serville, 1831". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  3. ^ Rodrigues, H M; Svenson, G J (2018). "Epaphroditidae sensu novo, an endemic Caribbean family of morphologically divergent praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea)". Neotropical Entomology. 47 (4): 502–507. doi:10.1007/s13744-017-0570-7.
  4. ^ a b c Moulin, Nicolas; Meurgey, François; Hugel, Sylvain (2021). "Mantodea from Eastern Caribbean Islands". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. New Series. 57 (3): 235–257. doi:10.1080/00379271.2021.1932590.


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