Acanthops
Acanthops | |
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Adult female Acanthops falcataria | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Acanthopidae |
Subfamily: | Acanthopinae |
Tribe: | Acanthopini |
Genus: | Acanthops Serville, 1831 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Plesiacanthops (Chopard, 1913) |
Acanthops is a genus in the subfamily Acanthopinae of the family Acanthopidae, containing 19 species that can be found in South America.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Francesco Lombardo & Salvatrice Ippolito (2004). "Revision of the species of Acanthops Serville 1831 (Mantodea, Mantidae, Acanthopinae) with comments on their phylogeny". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97 (6): 1076–1102. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[1076:ROTSOA]2.0.CO;2.
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