Intersexuality in the holotype of Photina gracilis (Mantodea: Mantidae: Photininae) and its taxonomic implications

Agudelo, Antonio A.

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“…We included undescribed, yet relevant, taxa among our study material; these are labelled as such in the phylogeny and Appendix S1. For taxonomic identification we used the available literature on Neotropical Mantodea listed in Rivera (), in addition to more recently published contributions (Rivera et al , ; Roy & Stiewe, ; Lombardo et al , ; Menezes & Bravo, ; Agudelo, ; Agudelo & Rafael, ; Rivera, ; Scherrer, ; Svenson, ; Agudelo & Rivera, ; François & Roy, ; Roy, ). We studied type specimens when literature‐based identification was inconclusive.…”

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The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

Rivera

Svenson

2016

Systematic Entomology

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We perform phylogenetic analyses of the 'polymorphic earless praying mantises', a heterogeneous assemblage comprising c. 55% of mantodean diversity in the Neotropics. Bayesian and maximum-likelihood were implemented on a DNA dataset of 9949 aligned nucleic acid characters comprising ten mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Our analyses largely resolved congruent relationships with high levels of support for higher-level taxonomic groups, but revealed extensive inconsistencies between the resolved topology and morphology-based classification systems. The polymorphic earless praying mantises, now granted superfamily status as the Acanthopoidea stat.n., comprises 8 families, 15 subfamilies and 18 tribes. Our newly revised organization required the following taxonomic changes: (i) Thespidae sensu n., including subfamilies Pseudopogonogastrinae subfam.n., Pseudomiopteryginae sensu n., Bantiinae subfam.n., Miobantiinae sensu n. and Thespinae sensu n. (tribes Musoniellini trib.n. and Thespini sensu n.); (ii) Angelidae stat.n. et sensu n.; (iii) Coptopterygidae stat.n.; (iv) Liturgusidae sensu n.; (v) Photinaidae stat.n., including Macromantinae stat.n., Cardiopterinae stat.n., Photiomantinae subfam.n. and Photinainae sensu n. (tribes Microphotinini trib.n., Orthoderellini stat.n. and Photinaini sensu n.); (vi) Stenophyllidae stat.n.; (vii) Acontistidae stat.n.; and (viii) Acanthopidae sensu n. Our new system also resulted in the reassignment of various genera to new and existing higher-level taxa, the exclusion of old world genera otherwise traditionally classified among the Thespidae, Liturgusidae and Angelidae, the confirmation of Stenophylla Westwood as member of this clade, and the revalidation of Paradiabantia Piza stat.r. We provide diagnoses for all suprageneric taxa using external morphological characters and male genitalia. A key to higher-level groups is provided. We incorporate egg case structural variation as a novel approach for taxon delineation.This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid: zoobank.

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The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

Rivera

Svenson

2016

Systematic Entomology

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Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa

Loeffler‐Henry

Kang

Sherratt

2019

The American Naturalist

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Updated Checklist and Distribution of Mantidae (Mantodea : Insecta) of the World

2016

International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology

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The praying mantids (Order Mantodea, Class Insecta) are a group of over 2500 carnivorous polyneopteran insects distributed in tropical and subtropical habitats of the world, from the rainforest to the desert ground. The order Mantodea comprises over 20 families, out of which the family Mantidae is the largest one and consists of almost 50% of the total mantids described so far. In this compilation, the family Mantidae was grouped into most acceptable 21 subfamilies:

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Intersexuality in the holotype of Photina gracilis (Mantodea: Mantidae: Photininae) and its taxonomic implications

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

The Neotropical ‘polymorphic earless praying mantises’ – Part I: molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level systematics (Insecta: Mantodea, Acanthopoidea)

Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa

Updated Checklist and Distribution of Mantidae (Mantodea : Insecta) of the World

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