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is the most diverse and variable family, with a wide array of morphological, ecological and behavioural adaptations. As currently conceived, 
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is most probably a polyphyletic assemblage (
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). According to 
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it includes 20 subfamilies, nine of which occur in the Neotropics.
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<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225AEB617FA8603FFEF9603F" box="[198,319,1562,1588]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="9" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Angelinae">Angelinae</taxonomicName>
is a quite distinctive group of long, slender-bodied insects, whose species somewhat resemble walking sticks. This subfamily is represented in the Neotropics by two genera. 
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Chopard
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contains a single, very distinctive species from northwestern South 
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(
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<emphasis id="B963B765225AEB617CB76040FB9A6075" box="[985,1116,1637,1662]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="53">T. bolivari</emphasis>
Chopard, 1916
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) of which nothing is known besides the original description and a subsequent photo of the 
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by 
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. 
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Serville
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is a widespread genus and well diversified with 17 species. Although 
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is in need of revision, most species are quite distinctive and original descriptions are still useful for the identification of some species. In addition, 
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provided useful descriptions (including male genitalia) of the species occurring in 
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: 
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(De Hann, 1842)
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, 
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<emphasis id="B963B765225AEB617CF96105FBF36132" box="[919,1077,1824,1849]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="53">A. guianensis</emphasis>
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, and 
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<emphasis id="B963B765225AEB617A6A6105FA5A6132" box="[1284,1436,1824,1849]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="53">A. peruviana</emphasis>
(Giglio-Tos, 1916)
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. This subfamily is sometimes included (possibly incorrectly) within the 
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.
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is a predominantly Old-World assemblage with three genera mainly distributed in the Nearctic region and of which only two occur in the neotropics. The affinities between the New and Old-World two lineages need to be tested. This subfamily consists of small, ground-dwelling species in arid habitats. 
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<emphasis id="B963B765225AEB617FF961FEFED961FF" box="[151,287,2011,2036]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="53">Litaneutria</emphasis>
Saussure
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includes, according to 
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, 
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and 
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, seven species. However, 
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synonimized most of these species with 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B3A66BDFB7C66BA" box="[1108,1210,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">L. minor</emphasis>
(Scudder, 1872)
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, a highly variable, widely distributed species, and probably the only one that should be included in 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627A7E6698FA5266DD" box="[1296,1428,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Litaneutria</emphasis>
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; distributional records for this species are found in 
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(under 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B7966C7FB5A66F0" box="[1047,1180,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">L. ocularis</emphasis>
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) and 
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Battiston 
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627E61672DFE8B672A" box="[271,333,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">et al.</emphasis>
(2005)
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, who also described the male genitalia. 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627CF3672DFBC7672A" box="[925,1025,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Yersinia</emphasis>
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includes a single species, 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627F936708FE48674D" box="[253,398,301,326]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Y. mexicana</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627EF06708FD9F674C" author="Saussure" box="[414,601,301,327]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1859) Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnosis praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquee, 11 (2), 259 - 63, 201 - 212, 315 - 317, 390 - 394." type="journal article" year="1859">Saussure, 1859</bibRefCitation>
)
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, occurring in 
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and 
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and whose male genitalia have been depicted by 
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Battiston 
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627EB86777FDD66760" box="[470,528,338,363]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">et al.</emphasis>
(2005)
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.
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consists of three genera mainly distributed in southern North 
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, Central 
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and adjacent areas of South 
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, as well as in the Caribbean region. 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B6367B8FB7B67BD" box="[1037,1213,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Phasmomantis</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
includes two large, rather distinctive species (see 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627DEC67E7FC8D67D7" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[642,843,450,476]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1927) Das tierreich. Orthoptera-Mantidae. Walter de Gruyter &amp; Co., Berlin, 50, 707 pp." type="book" year="1927">Giglio-Tos 1927</bibRefCitation>
); 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627C0F67E7FB4C67D7" author="Salazar" box="[865,1162,450,476]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stewie (2009)</bibRefCitation>
published a photo and information on the 
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of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627D7E67CDFD6A640A" box="[528,684,488,513]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">P. championi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627DDA67CDFC386409" author="Saussure" box="[692,1022,488,514]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B6467CDFB0A6409" authority="Stal" authorityName="Stal" box="[1034,1228,488,514]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Callimantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B6467CDFB53640A" box="[1034,1173,488,513]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Callimantis</emphasis>
Stål
</taxonomicName>
contains a single insular species widely distributed in the Caribbean region, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627C1E6428FB37642C" authority="Saussure, 1859" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1859" box="[880,1265,525,551]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Callimantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="antillarum">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627C1E6428FBD3642D" box="[880,1045,525,550]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">C. antillarum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627B496428FB2E642C" author="Saussure" box="[1063,1256,525,551]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1859) Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnosis praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquee, 11 (2), 259 - 63, 201 - 212, 315 - 317, 390 - 394." type="journal article" year="1859">Saussure, 1859</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627B906428FE7F6447" author="Lombardo" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Perez-Gelabert, D. E. (2004) The mantids of Hispaniola, with the description of two new species (Mantodea). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragones a, 34, 35 - 48." type="journal article" year="2004">Lombardo &amp; Perez-Gelabert (2004)</bibRefCitation>
depicted this species in detail and discussed its variability and distribution. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627FF9647DFE6A6479" ID-CoL="8NZFW" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[151,428,600,626]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627FF9647DFEFA647A" box="[151,316,600,625]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Stagmomantis</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
is one of the most diverse genera in the Neotropics, with a range extending well into the Nearctic region. Even though 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627D596458FD24649D" box="[567,738,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Stagmomantis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species are among the most common mantids in Central 
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, 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72259EB627E646487FEA264B7" box="[266,356,674,700]" name="Mexico" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Mexico</collectingCountry>
and the southern 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72259EB627D5F6487FDA164B7" box="[561,615,674,700]" name="United States of America" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">U.S.</collectingCountry>
, there is not a single comprehensive work dealing with this genus, and the exact number of valid species is uncertain (approximately 20–25 spp.). Although many species are well known and can be identified from the available literature, multiple sources typically must be consulted for accurate identification. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627EC56537FD8B6527" author="Rehn" box="[427,589,786,812]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1935 b) The Orthoptera of Costa Rica. Part I. Mantidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 87, 167 - 271." type="journal article" year="1935" yearSuffix="b">Rehn (1935b)</bibRefCitation>
is still a good reference for those species occurring in Central 
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, with detailed descriptions and partial designs of the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627CB0651DFACE6559" ID-CoL="4ZGS7" authority="Saussure, 1869" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1869" box="[990,1288,824,850]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nahua">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627CB0651DFB8E655A" box="[990,1096,824,849]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. nahua</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627B21651DFACE6559" author="Saussure" box="[1103,1288,824,850]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1869) Essai d'un Systeme des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 3 (2), 49 - 73." type="journal article" year="1869">Saussure, 1869</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627A7B651DFA5A655A" box="[1301,1436,824,849]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. centralis</emphasis>
(Giglio-Tos, 1917)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627EED6578FD7D657C" ID-CoL="4ZGSF" authority="Saussure, 1870" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1870" box="[387,699,861,887]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vicina">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627EED6578FE2C657D" box="[387,490,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. vicina</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E976578FD74657C" author="Saussure" box="[505,690,861,887]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1870) Additions au Systeme des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 3 (5), 221 - 244." type="journal article" year="1870">Saussure, 1870</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627DA66578FBEC657C" ID-CoL="4ZGRN" authority="Johansson, 1763" authorityName="Johansson" authorityYear="1763" box="[712,1066,861,887]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="carolina">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627DA66578FC8F657D" box="[712,841,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. carolina</emphasis>
(Johansson, 1763)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B596578FEA86597" ID-CoL="5F5FK" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="montana" subSpecies="montana">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B596578FAED657D" box="[1079,1323,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. montana montana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627A5D6578FEA86597" author="Saussure" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627EC765A7FDFC6590" box="[425,570,898,923]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. theophila</emphasis>
Rehn, 1904
</taxonomicName>
(full genital design of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627C8B65A7FBB06590" box="[997,1142,898,923]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. theophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627BF365A7FF1D65C9" author="Lombardo" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti 2001</bibRefCitation>
). Partial descriptions of the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627C4F658DFBFA65C9" authority="Rehn, 1935" authorityName="Rehn" authorityYear="1935" box="[801,1084,936,962]" class="Insecta" family="Thespidae" genus="Calopteromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hebardi">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627C4F658DFC6565CA" box="[801,931,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. hebardi</emphasis>
Rehn, 1935
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B15658DFAC565CA" box="[1147,1283,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. fraterna</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627A62658DFE8E65EC" author="Saussure" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
were made by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E9665E8FD5D65EC" author="Rehn" box="[504,667,973,999]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1935 a) On certain Mexican and Central American species of Melliera and Stagmomantis (Orthoptera: Mantidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61, 317 - 329." type="journal article" year="1935" yearSuffix="a">Rehn (1935a)</bibRefCitation>
. The male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627CCA65E8FB9565ED" ID-CoL="4ZGRT" box="[932,1107,973,998]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="domingensis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627CCA65E8FB9565ED" box="[932,1107,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. domingensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) were illustrated by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E1265D7FCEF6207" author="Lombardo" box="[380,809,1010,1036]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Perez-Gelabert, D. E. (2004) The mantids of Hispaniola, with the description of two new species (Mantodea). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragones a, 34, 35 - 48." type="journal article" year="2004">Lombardo &amp; Perez-Gelabert (2004)</bibRefCitation>
, and those of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627CBE65D7FB8E6200" box="[976,1096,1010,1035]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. limbata</emphasis>
(Hahn, 1835)
</taxonomicName>
were depicted by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627FD2623DFE076239" box="[188,449,1048,1074]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Battiston, R., Fontana, P., Agabiti, B. &amp; Garcia-Garcia, P. L. (2005) Mantodea Collected in Mexico During an 8800 Km Orthopterological Trip (Insecta: Mantodea). Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, a. 255 ser. VIII, Vol V, B, 199 - 215." type="journal article">
Battiston 
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627E43623DFEA1623A" box="[301,359,1048,1073]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">et al.</emphasis>
(2005)
</bibRefCitation>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627EA2623DFD186239" author="Ariza" box="[460,734,1048,1074]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Ariza, G. M. &amp; Salazar, J. A. (2005) Nuevas especies de mantidos para Colombia. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 9, 121 - 135." type="journal article" year="2005">Ariza &amp; Salazar (2005)</bibRefCitation>
illustrated the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B34623DFDF6625C" authority="Ariza &amp; Salazar, 2005" authorityName="Ariza &amp; Salazar" authorityYear="2005" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="parvidentata" subSpecies="colombiana">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B34623DFEE7625D" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Stagmomantis parvidentata colombiana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E466218FDF6625C" author="Ariza" box="[296,560,1085,1111]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Ariza, G. M. &amp; Salazar, J. A. (2005) Nuevas especies de mantidos para Colombia. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 9, 121 - 135." type="journal article" year="2005">Ariza &amp; Salazar, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. Finally, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627DF56218FC93625C" author="Salazar" box="[667,853,1085,1111]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Salazar, J. A. (2006 b) Ilustraciones en mantidos Colombianos, tipos y apuntes sobre su biogeografia (Insecta: Mantodea). Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 10, 243 - 257." type="journal article" year="2006" yearSuffix="b">Salazar (2006b)</bibRefCitation>
and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627CE36218FB6B625C" author="Salazar" box="[909,1197,1085,1111]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stiewe (2009)</bibRefCitation>
published photos of the 
<typeStatus id="54ACD5D52259EB627FA86247FF3A6277" box="[198,252,1122,1148]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">type</typeStatus>
specimens of (respectively) 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627D046246FB876277" authority="Giglio-Tos, 1917" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" authorityYear="1917" box="[618,1089,1122,1148]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stauromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="festae">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627D046246FCA76277" box="[618,865,1123,1148]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Stauromantis festae</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos, 1917
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B116246FE8C62A9" authority="Saussure, 1870" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1870" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pagana">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B116246FA5B6277" box="[1151,1437,1123,1148]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Stagmatoptera pagana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627FF962ADFE8C62A9" author="Saussure" box="[151,330,1160,1186]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1870) Additions au Systeme des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 3 (5), 221 - 244." type="journal article" year="1870">Saussure, 1870</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, both synonyms of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627D5E62ADFD7B62AA" ID-CoL="4ZGSC" box="[560,701,1160,1185]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="theophila">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627D5E62ADFD7B62AA" box="[560,701,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">S. theophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA86B772259EB627FA86288FBD763C7" blockId="10.[151,1437,152,2007]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627FA86288FE8B62CC" ID-CoL="8Q6YW" box="[198,333,1197,1223]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mellierinae">Mellierinae</taxonomicName>
is distributed in southern 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72259EB627D136288FD1C62CC" box="[637,730,1197,1223]" name="Mexico" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Mexico</collectingCountry>
, Central 
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and northern South 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72259EB627BFB6288FB3B62CC" box="[1173,1277,1197,1223]" name="United States of America" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">America</collectingCountry>
, and includes two very similar genera. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627ED162F6FD5662E7" ID-CoL="8P2YL" authority="Rehn" authorityName="Rehn" box="[447,656,1234,1260]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Xystropeltis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627ED162F6FD8D62E7" box="[447,587,1235,1260]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Xystropeltis</emphasis>
Rehn
</taxonomicName>
consists of 3 species, although 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627B6662F7FB2E62E7" author="Lombardo" box="[1032,1256,1234,1260]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo (2000b)</bibRefCitation>
questioned the placement of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627E5862DDFE29631A" box="[310,495,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">X. quadrilobata</emphasis>
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Terra, 
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in this genus and suggested that it could be a species of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627A6162DDFA5A631A" box="[1295,1436,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Heterovates</emphasis>
Saussure, 1872 (Vatinae)
</taxonomicName>
. The other two species (
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627D806338FBDC633C" ID-CoL="7FZRR" authority="Rehn, 1935" authorityName="Rehn" authorityYear="1935" box="[750,1050,1309,1335]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Xystropeltis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lankesteri">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627D806338FC41633D" box="[750,903,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">X. lankesteri</emphasis>
Rehn, 1935
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B386338FF276357" ID-CoL="5CQQB" authority="Lombardo, 2000" authorityName="Lombardo" authorityYear="2000" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Xystropeltis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="meridionalis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B386338FAD6633D" box="[1110,1296,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">X. meridionalis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627A766338FF276357" author="Lombardo" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo, 2000b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
) can be distinguished by consulting the original descriptions (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627CD76367FB8D6357" author="Rehn" box="[953,1099,1346,1372]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1935 a) On certain Mexican and Central American species of Melliera and Stagmomantis (Orthoptera: Mantidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61, 317 - 329." type="journal article" year="1935" yearSuffix="a">Rehn 1935a</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627B396367FAE06357" author="Lombardo" box="[1111,1318,1346,1372]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo 2000b</bibRefCitation>
), but only the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627EF2634DFD9F638A" ID-CoL="5CQQB" box="[412,601,1384,1409]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Xystropeltis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="meridionalis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627EF2634DFD9F638A" box="[412,601,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">X. meridionalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627D8C634DFC7A6389" author="Lombardo" box="[738,956,1384,1410]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo 2000b</bibRefCitation>
). Four species are included in 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627A5A634DFEC263AC" ID-CoL="8NV62" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Melliera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627A5A634DFA5B638A" box="[1332,1437,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Melliera</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
; although they are well known in the literature, they need updated revision. Species identifications can be achieved with use of multiple sources (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627DDC6397FC8563C7" author="Rehn" box="[690,835,1458,1484]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1935 a) On certain Mexican and Central American species of Melliera and Stagmomantis (Orthoptera: Mantidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61, 317 - 329." type="journal article" year="1935" yearSuffix="a">Rehn 1935a</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627C3E6397FCA763C7" author="Rehn" box="[848,865,1458,1484]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1935 b) The Orthoptera of Costa Rica. Part I. Mantidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 87, 167 - 271." type="journal article" year="1935" yearSuffix="b">b</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627C036397FC7F63C7" author="Rehn" box="[877,953,1458,1484]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1951 b) Three New Central American Mantoidea (Orthoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 76, 363 - 383." type="journal article" year="1951" yearSuffix="b">1951b</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627CAB6397FBC263C7" author="Rehn" box="[965,1028,1458,1484]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1955) Extension of range of a little-known Neotropical mantid (Mellierinae). Entomological News, 66 (3), 79." type="journal article" year="1955">1955</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627FA863FDFE5063F9" ID-CoL="8Q6ZN" box="[198,406,1496,1522]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Stagmatopterinae">Stagmatopterinae</taxonomicName>
, a distinctive subfamily within the Neotropical 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627C8463FDFBA463F9" ID-CoL="8NKF9" box="[1002,1122,1496,1522]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Mantodea</taxonomicName>
, is distributed in tropical 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72259EB627FF963D8FEC1601C" box="[151,263,1533,1559]" name="United States of America" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">America</collectingCountry>
and includes seven genera, none of which have been reviewed in recent years. The last comprehensive revision was by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627D426007FCD56037" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[556,787,1570,1596]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1914) Mantidi esotici. VI. Vatinae. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 29 (684), 1 - 87." type="journal article" year="1914">Giglio-Tos (1914)</bibRefCitation>
, and species identification in this subfamily can be accomplished by consulting this reference in addition to 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627C2E606DFBDA6069" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[832,1052,1608,1634]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1927) Das tierreich. Orthoptera-Mantidae. Walter de Gruyter &amp; Co., Berlin, 50, 707 pp." type="book" year="1927">Giglio-Tos (1927)</bibRefCitation>
. However, given their antiquity, these references often lack enough details and illustrations to confidently separate some of the species. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627FF960B6FEAE60A7" ID-CoL="8NWJ4" authority="Caudell" authorityName="Caudell" box="[151,360,1682,1708]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Oxyopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627FF960B6FEC260A7" box="[151,260,1683,1708]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Oxyopsis</emphasis>
Caudell
</taxonomicName>
consists of 11 poorly known species; the male genitalia have been described for only one species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627F94609DFC4A60D9" authority="Giglio-Tos, 1914 (Lombardo &amp; Agabiti 2001)" authorityName="Giglio-Tos, 1914 (Lombardo &amp; Agabiti" authorityYear="2001" box="[250,908,1720,1746]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stauromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="festae">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627F94609DFEA460DA" box="[250,354,1720,1745]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">O. festae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E05609DFDF560D9" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[363,563,1720,1746]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1914) Mantidi esotici. VI. Vatinae. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 29 (684), 1 - 87." type="journal article" year="1914">Giglio-Tos, 1914</bibRefCitation>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627D2C609DFC4560D9" author="Lombardo" box="[578,899,1720,1746]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti 2001</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627CF9609DFBAB60D9" ID-CoL="8NX66" authority="Rehn" authorityName="Rehn" box="[919,1133,1720,1746]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Paroxyopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627CF9609DFBE160DA" box="[919,1063,1720,1745]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Paroxyopsis</emphasis>
Rehn
</taxonomicName>
includes a single species, 
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627FF960F8FECA60FD" box="[151,268,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">P. i c t e r i c a</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627E4E60F8FDA860FC" author="Saussure" box="[288,622,1757,1783]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
), known only from the original description. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627BEC60F8FA5B60FC" ID-CoL="8NP4M" authority="Giglio-Tos" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" box="[1154,1437,1757,1783]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Catoxyopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627BEC60F8FAD260FD" box="[1154,1300,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Catoxyopsis</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos
</taxonomicName>
also includes a single, uncommon species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627DF36126FC336117" ID-CoL="RW8W" authority="Giglio-Tos, 1898" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" authorityYear="1898" box="[669,1013,1794,1820]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Catoxyopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dubiosa">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627DF36126FCE66117" box="[669,800,1795,1820]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">C. dubiosa</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos, 1898
</taxonomicName>
(female illustrated in 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627A6F6127FEFE6149" author="Lombardo" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti 2001</bibRefCitation>
). Likewise, the five species of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627DC7610DFB806149" ID-CoL="8NYC4" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" box="[681,1094,1832,1858]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudoxyops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627DC7610DFC85614A" box="[681,835,1832,1857]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Pseudoxyops</emphasis>
Saussure &amp; Zehntner
</taxonomicName>
also are quite obscure, but a picture of a female of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627ECA6168FD0B616C" ID-CoL="4PF6G" authority="Westwood" authorityName="Westwood" box="[420,717,1869,1895]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudoxyops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perpulchra">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627ECA6168FD8E616D" box="[420,584,1869,1894]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">P. perpulchra</emphasis>
Westwood
</taxonomicName>
was published by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627CC16168FBA9616C" author="Salazar" box="[943,1135,1869,1895]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Salazar, J. A. (2003 a) A note on Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 2003). New record for Colombian mantidea and the check list of the species deposited in the other museums of the world. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 7, 229 - 223." type="journal article" year="2003" yearSuffix="a">Salazar (2003a)</bibRefCitation>
, and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627BDE6168FF346187" author="Battiston" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Battiston, R. &amp; Picciau, L. (2008 a) Contribution to the knowledge of the Mantodea of Ecuador with the description of the male of Pseudoxyops perpulchra (Westwood, 1889) (Mantodea Mantidae Stagmatopterinae). In: Giachino, P. M. (Ed), Biodiversity of South America I. Memoirs on Biodiversity, World Biodiversity Association Onlus, Verona, 1, p. 19 - 30." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Battiston &amp; Picciau (2008a)</bibRefCitation>
described the male and its genitalia, as well as the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627B7F6156FA886187" ID-CoL="6WJ6F" authority="Giglio-Tos, 1914" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" authorityYear="1914" box="[1041,1358,1906,1932]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudoxyops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuta">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627B7F6156FBB96187" box="[1041,1151,1907,1932]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">P. minuta</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627BE86157FA886187" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[1158,1358,1906,1932]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1914) Mantidi esotici. VI. Vatinae. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 29 (684), 1 - 87." type="journal article" year="1914">Giglio-Tos, 1914</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627AE86156FEBA61B9" ID-CoL="4PF6D" authority="Stoll, 1813" authorityName="Stoll" authorityYear="1813" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudoxyops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="diluta">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627AE86156FF1D61BA" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">P. diluta</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862259EB627F8261BDFEB461B9" author="Stoll" box="[236,370,1944,1970]" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" refString="Stoll, C. (1813) Representation exactement coloree d'apres nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde. J. C. Sepp et Fils, Amsterdam, 79 pp." type="book" year="1813">Stoll, 1813</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42259EB627EE961BDFD1A61B9" ID-CoL="8NVVH" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[391,732,1944,1970]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Parastagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652259EB627EE961BDFDAD61BA" box="[391,619,1944,1969]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="54">Parastagmatoptera</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
includes 13–14 species, but despite this high number it has received exceedingly little taxonomic treatment over the years and is in need of revision. Species recognition by means of the current taxonomic literature is very difficult and several synonymies almost certainly exist. Only the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E9C6698FC6166DC" ID-CoL="4DCTD" authority="Burmeister, 1838" authorityName="Burmeister" authorityYear="1838" box="[498,935,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Parastagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="unipunctata">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E9C6698FD6D66DD" box="[498,683,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. unipunctata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DD36698FC5866DC" author="Burmeister" box="[701,926,189,215]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Burmeister, H. C. (1838) Handbuch der Entomologie. Fangschrecken, Mantodea. Handbuch der Entomologie, Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin, 2, v - viii, 517 - 522." type="journal article" year="1838">Burmeister, 1838</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has been described (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BDA6698FA4966DC" author="Heitzmann" box="[1204,1423,189,215]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Heitzmann, T. J. (1959) Genitalia de Parastagmatoptera unipunctata (Burm., 1838) (Mantodea). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 13, 329 - 337." type="journal article" year="1959">Heitzmann 1959</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF966C7FEA166F7" ID-CoL="8NTN2" authority="Rehn" authorityName="Rehn" box="[151,359,226,252]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Lobocneme" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FF966C7FEE666F0" box="[151,288,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Lobocneme</emphasis>
Rehn
</taxonomicName>
is also little known, with just two uncommon species. The male of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637BF666C7FF156729" ID-CoL="3VT6Q" authority="Hebard, 1919" authorityName="Hebard" authorityYear="1919" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Lobocneme" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="colombiae">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637BF666C7FAF266F0" box="[1176,1332,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">L. colombiae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637A5366C7FF156729" author="Hebard" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Hebard, M. (1919) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. 1. Dermaptera and Orthopterous families Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 45, 87 - 179." type="journal article" year="1919">Hebard, 1919</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
was pictured by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637ECA672DFD936729" author="Cerda" box="[420,597,264,290]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Cerda, F. J. (1997 a) Mantodea de Venezuela. Generos y lista preliminar de especies. Parte IV. Familia Mantidae (Subfamilia Vatinae). Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana (NS), 12 (1), 17 - 31." type="journal article" year="1997" yearSuffix="a">Cerdá (1997a)</bibRefCitation>
. The well-known genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C11672DFB786729" ID-CoL="8NZFV" authority="Burmeister" authorityName="Burmeister" box="[895,1214,264,290]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C11672DFBE9672A" box="[895,1071,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Stagmatoptera</emphasis>
Burmeister
</taxonomicName>
includes about 15 species, and despite their commonness and large size, the genus has never been reviewed. Specific identification can be accomplished, within limits, by consulting original descriptions and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BA96777FA516767" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[1223,1431,338,364]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1914) Mantidi esotici. VI. Vatinae. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 29 (684), 1 - 87." type="journal article" year="1914">Giglio-Tos (1914</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637FF9675DFF116799" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[151,215,376,402]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1927) Das tierreich. Orthoptera-Mantidae. Walter de Gruyter &amp; Co., Berlin, 50, 707 pp." type="book" year="1927">1927</bibRefCitation>
). The male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E9A675DFC8C6799" authority="Saussure, 1869" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1869" box="[500,842,376,402]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Parastagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biocellata">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E9A675DFD4C679A" box="[500,650,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. biocellata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DFC675DFC8C6799" author="Saussure" box="[658,842,376,402]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1869) Essai d'un Systeme des Mantides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 3 (2), 49 - 73." type="journal article" year="1869">Saussure, 1869</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C39675DFABF6799" ID-CoL="4ZGRH" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[855,1401,376,402]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septentrionalis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C39675DFBE1679A" box="[855,1063,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. septentrionalis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B41675DFABF6799" author="Saussure" box="[1071,1401,376,402]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637AE8675DFE1667BC" ID-CoL="4ZGRJ" authority="Stoll, 1813" authorityName="Stoll" authorityYear="1813" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="supplicaria">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637AE8675DFEE367BD" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. supplicaria</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E5967B8FE0067BC" author="Stoll" box="[311,454,413,439]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Stoll, C. (1813) Representation exactement coloree d'apres nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde. J. C. Sepp et Fils, Amsterdam, 79 pp." type="book" year="1813">Stoll, 1813</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637EB067B8FCE567BC" ID-CoL="4ZGQW" authority="Scudder, 1896" authorityName="Scudder" authorityYear="1896" box="[478,803,413,439]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="binotata">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637EB067B8FDA167BD" box="[478,615,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. binotata</emphasis>
Scudder, 1896
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C0C67B8FA9167BC" ID-CoL="4ZGR3" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[866,1367,413,439]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="femoralis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C0C67B8FC3F67BD" box="[866,1017,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. femoralis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B6F67B8FA9167BC" author="Saussure" box="[1025,1367,413,439]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
were illustrated by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E5267E7FE2B67D7" author="Cerda" box="[316,493,450,476]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Cerda, F. J. (1993 b) Valor taxonomico del complejo falico en Mantidos Neotropicales (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana (NS), 8 (1), 33 - 52." type="journal article" year="1993" yearSuffix="b">Cerdá (1993b)</bibRefCitation>
, and a SEM image of the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C9767E7FAA367D7" ID-CoL="4ZGQV" authority="Olivier, 1792" authorityName="Olivier" authorityYear="1792" box="[1017,1381,450,476]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abdominalis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C9767E7FB6D67D0" box="[1017,1195,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. abdominalis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BD567E7FA9B67D7" author="Olivier" box="[1211,1373,450,476]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Olivier, G. A. (1792) Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire Naturelle, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Panckoucke, Paris, 7, 827 pp." type="book" year="1792">Olivier, 1792</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
was presented by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E5A67CDFE356409" author="Jantsch" box="[308,499,488,514]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Jantsch, L. J. (1994 b) Estudos morfologicos em macho de Stagmatoptera abdominalis (Mantode, Mantidae, Vatinae). Biociencias, 2, 159 - 162." type="journal article" year="1994" yearSuffix="b">Jantsch (1994b)</bibRefCitation>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E9067CDFD796409" author="Ehrmann" box="[510,703,488,514]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Ehrmann, R. (1999) Stagmatoptera Burmeister 1838, eine interessante Gattung der Ordnung Mantoptera (Insecta: Mantoptera, Familie: Vatidae, Subfamilie: Stagmatopterinae, Tribus: Stagmatopterini). Arthropoda, 7 (4), 10 - 15." type="journal article" year="1999">Ehrmann (1999)</bibRefCitation>
published pictures of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CA867CDFA5A6409" ID-CoL="4ZGR3" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[966,1436,488,514]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="femoralis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CA867CDFB94640A" box="[966,1106,488,513]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. femoralis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B3567CDFA5A6409" author="Saussure" box="[1115,1436,488,514]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FA66428FDC2642C" ID-CoL="4ZGR5" authority="Perty, 1832" authorityName="Perty" authorityYear="1832" box="[200,516,525,551]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hyaloptera">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FA66428FEA2642D" box="[200,356,525,550]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. hyaloptera</emphasis>
(Perty, 1832)
</taxonomicName>
and established some synonymies. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637CCB6428FB03642C" author="Salazar" box="[933,1221,525,551]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stewie (2009)</bibRefCitation>
published a photo and further data on the 
<typeStatus id="54ACD5D52258EB637EC96417FDCB6447" box="[423,525,562,588]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637D5B6417FCC66440" ID-CoL="4ZGRH" box="[565,768,562,587]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Stagmatoptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septentrionalis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637D5B6417FCC66440" box="[565,768,562,587]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">S. septentrionalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA86B772258EB637FA8647DFE72608C" blockId="11.[151,1437,152,2007]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FA8647DFED86479" ID-CoL="8Q6ZZ" box="[198,286,600,626]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Vatinae">Vatinae</taxonomicName>
is exclusively Neotropical and includes nine genera. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CFC647DFB716479" ID-CoL="8NPLG" authority="Giglio-Tos" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" box="[914,1207,600,626]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Chopardiella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CFC647DFBEB647A" box="[914,1069,600,625]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Chopardiella</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos
</taxonomicName>
, formerly placed in 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF96458FEAD649C" ID-CoL="8Q6ZN" box="[151,363,637,663]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Stagmatopterinae">Stagmatopterinae</taxonomicName>
and transferred to 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637D3A6458FD69649C" ID-CoL="8Q6ZZ" box="[596,687,637,663]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Vatinae">Vatinae</taxonomicName>
by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DB16458FC6C649C" author="Ehrmann" box="[735,938,637,663]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Ehrmann, R. (2002) Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Munster: Natur und Tier Verlag, 519 pp." type="book" year="2002">Ehrmann (2002)</bibRefCitation>
, has only two species. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BAB6458FA5A649C" author="Lombardo" box="[1221,1436,637,663]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. (1994) Mantodei Neotropicali. IV. Ritrovamento e descrizione del maschio di Chopardiella latipennis (Chopard, 1911) (Insecta, Mantodea). Animalia, 21, 49 - 51." type="journal article" year="1994">Lombardo (1994)</bibRefCitation>
described the male of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637EF46487FD3E64B7" ID-CoL="578BR" authority="Chopard, 1912" authorityName="Chopard" authorityYear="1912" box="[410,760,674,700]" class="Insecta" family="Acanthopidae" genus="Tithrone" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latipennis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637EF46487FDE964B0" box="[410,559,674,699]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">C. latipennis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637D516487FD3664B7" author="Chopard" box="[575,752,674,700]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Chopard, L. (1912) Contribution de la faune des Orthopteres de la Guyane francaise. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 80, 315 - 350." type="journal article" year="1912">Chopard, 1912</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and included illustrations of the male genitalia. A second species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E6C64EDFE5664EA" ID-CoL="5YB79" box="[258,400,712,737]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Chopardiella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="poulaini">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E6C64EDFE5664EA" box="[258,400,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">C. poulaini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, is described in detail by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DB964EDFBF964E9" author="Lombardo" box="[727,1087,712,738]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti (2001)</bibRefCitation>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637B2264EDFA9B64E9" ID-CoL="8NSJZ" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[1100,1373,712,738]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Heterovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B2264EDFB2764EA" box="[1100,1249,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Heterovates</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
, also previously included in 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637EC764C8FDBD650C" ID-CoL="8Q6ZN" box="[425,635,749,775]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Stagmatopterinae">Stagmatopterinae</taxonomicName>
, is monospecific; 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C3D64C8FB7D650C" ID-CoL="6LTBV" authority="Saussure, 1872" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1872" box="[851,1211,749,775]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Heterovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pardalina">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C3D64C8FC2D650D" box="[851,1003,749,774]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">H. pardalina</emphasis>
(Saussure, 1872)
</taxonomicName>
occurs in northern South 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72258EB637F846537FE9A6527" box="[234,348,786,812]" name="United States of America" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">America</collectingCountry>
. Its male genitalia were described by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637C2B6537FB736527" author="Lombardo" box="[837,1205,786,812]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti (2001)</bibRefCitation>
. 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637BAD6537FAC56520" box="[1219,1283,786,811]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Va t e s</emphasis>
Burmeister contains13 described species and several undescribed ones. No recent taxonomic revision for this genus is available and the existing literature often is insufficient for reliable species determinations, so old and multiple references must be consulted. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DEF65A7FCD96597" author="Beier" box="[641,799,898,924]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Beier, M. (1958) Uber neue und bekannte Mantiden aus Peru. Neotropica, 4, 51 - 57." type="journal article" year="1958">Beier (1958)</bibRefCitation>
presented a generally useful key to 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B8B65A7FAE46590" box="[1253,1314,898,923]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Va t es</emphasis>
spp. (but without illustrations) and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637EA6658DFCDE65C9" author="Lombardo" box="[456,792,936,962]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti (2001)</bibRefCitation>
keyed the species occurring in 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72258EB637BFE658DFB3465C9" box="[1168,1266,936,962]" name="Ecuador" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Ecuador</collectingCountry>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637A6A658DFEE065EC" ID-CoL="7FJX8" authority="Beier, 1958" authorityName="Beier" authorityYear="1958" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Vates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weyrauchi">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637A6A658DFA5A65CA" box="[1284,1436,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">V. weyrauchi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637FF965E8FEE065EC" author="Beier" box="[151,294,973,999]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Beier, M. (1958) Uber neue und bekannte Mantiden aus Peru. Neotropica, 4, 51 - 57." type="journal article" year="1958">Beier, 1958</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E5D65E8FD4C65EC" ID-CoL="7FK8X" authority="Stal, 1877" authorityName="Stal" authorityYear="1877" box="[307,650,973,999]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Vates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pectinicornis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E5D65E8FE3665ED" box="[307,496,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">V. pectinicornis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637D6F65E8FD4765EC" author="Stal" box="[513,641,973,999]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Stal, C. (1877) Systema Mantodeorum. Essai d'une Systematization nouvelle des Mantidees. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4, 1 - 91." type="journal article" year="1877">Stål, 1877</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637DF965E8FC2D65EC" ID-CoL="7FK8M" authority="Sjostedt, 1930" authorityName="Sjostedt" authorityYear="1930" box="[663,1003,973,999]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Vates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biplagiata">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637DF965E8FCF465ED" box="[663,818,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">V. biplagiata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637C5565E8FC2D65EC" author="Sjostedt" box="[827,1003,973,999]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Sjostedt, Y. (1930) Orthopterentypen im Naturhistorisches Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. Arkiv for Zoologi, 21 A (32), 1 - 43." type="journal article" year="1930">Sjöstedt, 1930</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C9665E8FB9C65ED" box="[1016,1114,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">V. f e s t a e</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos, 1898). In this genus only the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637D4965D7FCA86207" authority="Fabricius, 1798" authorityName="Fabricius" authorityYear="1798" box="[551,878,1010,1036]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="lobata">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637D4965D7FD556200" box="[551,659,1010,1035]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">V. lobata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DCA65D7FCA36207" author="Fabricius" box="[676,869,1010,1036]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Entomologiae Systematica. Supplementum. Prost &amp; Storch, Hafniae, Kopenhagen, ii + 572, 183 - 193." type="journal article" year="1798">Fabricius, 1798</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
have been described (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B1365D7FAE66207" author="Cerda" box="[1149,1312,1010,1036]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Cerda, F. J. (1993 b) Valor taxonomico del complejo falico en Mantidos Neotropicales (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana (NS), 8 (1), 33 - 52." type="journal article" year="1993" yearSuffix="b">Cerdá 1993b</bibRefCitation>
). The rare genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637F89623DFDA16239" ID-CoL="8PPXT" authority="Deeleman-Reinhold" authorityName="Deeleman-Reinhold" box="[231,615,1048,1074]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Lobovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637F89623DFEA0623A" box="[231,358,1048,1073]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Lobovates</emphasis>
Deeleman-Reinhold
</taxonomicName>
includes a single species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CDB623DFA5E6239" authority="Deeleman-Reinhold, 1957" authorityName="Deeleman-Reinhold" authorityYear="1957" box="[949,1432,1048,1074]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Lobovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chopardi">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CDB623DFB83623A" box="[949,1093,1048,1073]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">L. chopardi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B20623DFA5E6239" author="Deeleman-Reinhold" box="[1102,1432,1048,1074]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1957) Notes sur les Mantides du Museum de Layde avec la description d'un nouveau genre et de quelques especes nouvelles. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 35, 55 - 67." type="journal article" year="1957">Deeleman-Reinhold, 1957</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, known only from two records: the 
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locality (San 
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, 
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) and Misantla, in Vera Cruz, 
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E6E6247FD046277" author="Lombardo" box="[256,706,1122,1148]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo, 2000b, cited as “Misantha</bibRefCitation>
), but 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637C6A6247FC256277" author="Lombardo" box="[772,995,1122,1148]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 b) Remarks on some American mantids of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, and a description of a new species of Xystropeltis Rehn from Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 87 - 93." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="b">Lombardo (2000b)</bibRefCitation>
also described the male genitalia and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637FF962ADFE0662A9" author="Salazar" box="[151,448,1160,1186]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stiewe (2009)</bibRefCitation>
presented a photograph of the 
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. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CDD62ADFAF262A9" ID-CoL="8PPNV" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" box="[947,1332,1160,1186]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Hagiotata" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CDD62ADFBEB62AA" box="[947,1069,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Hagiotata</emphasis>
Saussure &amp; Zehntner
</taxonomicName>
consists solely of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E6B6288FD3C62CC" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[261,762,1197,1223]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Hagiotata" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hofmanni">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E6B6288FE5F62CD" box="[261,409,1197,1222]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">H. hofmanni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637EC76288FD3662CC" author="Saussure" box="[425,752,1197,1223]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, a species of southern South 
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. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637BA86288FA5D62CC" ID-CoL="8NWST" authority="Kirby" authorityName="Kirby" box="[1222,1435,1197,1223]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637BA86288FA8962CD" box="[1222,1359,1197,1222]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Phyllovates</emphasis>
Kirby
</taxonomicName>
includes 14 species of which very little is known. However, 
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Orofino 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CA262F6FBCE62E7" box="[972,1032,1235,1260]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">et al.</emphasis>
(2006)
</bibRefCitation>
published a brief study on the species of “western” South 
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and included descriptions (including male genitalia) of the following species: 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637F926338FD48633C" ID-CoL="8PBXM" authority="Blanchard, 1836" authorityName="Blanchard" authorityYear="1836" box="[252,654,1309,1335]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chlorophaea">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637F926338FE6A633D" box="[252,428,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. chlorophaea</emphasis>
(Blanchard, 1836)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637DF46338FC14633C" ID-CoL="8QPW4" authority="Stal, 1877" authorityName="Stal" authorityYear="1877" box="[666,978,1309,1335]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevicornis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637DF46338FCFB633D" box="[666,829,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. brevicornis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637C236338FC0F633C" author="Stal" box="[845,969,1309,1335]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Stal, C. (1877) Systema Mantodeorum. Essai d'une Systematization nouvelle des Mantidees. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4, 1 - 91." type="journal article" year="1877">Stål, 1877</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CB06338FBF4633D" box="[990,1074,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. s t o l l i</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B296338FA49633C" author="Saussure" box="[1095,1423,1309,1335]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
), 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF96366FE316357" ID-CoL="8QQ84" authority="(Piza, 1982b)" baseAuthorityName="Piza" baseAuthorityYear="1982" box="[151,503,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brasiliensis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FF96366FE836357" box="[151,325,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. brasiliensis</emphasis>
(Piza, 1982b)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637D6A6366FC7D6357" ID-CoL="4HD79" authority="Orofino" authorityName="Orofino" authorityYear="2006" box="[516,955,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilicollis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637D6A6366FD7F6357" box="[516,697,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. gracilicollis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DAC6367FC7D6357" author="Orofino" box="[706,955,1346,1372]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Orofino, F., Ippolito, S. &amp; Lombardo, F. (2006) Remarks on Phyllovates Kirby, 1904 of west South America and description of two new species (Insecta, Mantodea, Vatinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 132 (1), 205 - 222." type="journal article" year="2006">
Orofino 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C456366FCAC6357" box="[811,874,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">et. al</emphasis>
, 2006
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CA66366FAA86357" ID-CoL="4HD78" authority="Orofino" authorityName="Orofino" authorityYear="2006" box="[968,1390,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevicollis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CA66366FBAC6357" box="[968,1130,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. brevicollis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637B1C6367FAA86357" author="Orofino" box="[1138,1390,1346,1372]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Orofino, F., Ippolito, S. &amp; Lombardo, F. (2006) Remarks on Phyllovates Kirby, 1904 of west South America and description of two new species (Insecta, Mantodea, Vatinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 132 (1), 205 - 222." type="journal article" year="2006">
Orofino 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637BB56366FADC6357" box="[1243,1306,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">et. al</emphasis>
, 2006
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
). In addition, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E67634DFE016389" author="Jantsch" box="[265,455,1384,1410]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Jantsch, L. (1992 a) Descricao do macho de Phyllovates iheringi e P. brevicornis (Mantodea, Mantidae, Vatinae, Vatini. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 36, 79 - 83." type="journal article" year="1992" yearSuffix="a">Jantsch (1992a)</bibRefCitation>
redescribed the males (including genitalia) of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C94634DFF1D63AC" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inheringi">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C94634DFB40638A" box="[1018,1158,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. inheringi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BF8634DFF1563AC" author="Saussure" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E7D63A8FE7563AD" ID-CoL="8QPW4" box="[275,435,1421,1446]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevicornis">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E7D63A8FE7563AD" box="[275,435,1421,1446]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. brevicornis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E9D63A8FD5A63AC" author="Cerda" box="[499,668,1421,1447]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Cerda, F. J. (1993 b) Valor taxonomico del complejo falico en Mantidos Neotropicales (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana (NS), 8 (1), 33 - 52." type="journal article" year="1993" yearSuffix="b">Cerdá (1993b)</bibRefCitation>
also illustrated the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637B2563A8FB3D63AD" ID-CoL="8PBXM" box="[1099,1275,1421,1447]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chlorophaea">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B2563A8FB9C63AD" box="[1099,1114,1421,1446]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B0663A8FB3D63AD" box="[1128,1275,1421,1446]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">chlorophaea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637A6763A8FF3963C7" ID-CoL="8NY9W" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637A6763A8FA5A63AD" box="[1289,1436,1421,1446]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Pseudovates</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
is another poorly known taxon of nine species, but it does include the well-known Nearctic species 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF963FDFE0063F9" ID-CoL="6WHGZ" authority="Hebard, 1935" authorityName="Hebard" authorityYear="1935" box="[151,454,1496,1522]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Pseudovates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arizonae">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FF963FDFEDD63FA" box="[151,283,1496,1521]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. arizonae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E4D63FDFE0063F9" author="Hebard" box="[291,454,1496,1522]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in the Orthoptera of Arizona. Part. II.: A list of Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61, 269 - 316." type="journal article" year="1935">Hebard, 1935</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. The only Neotropical species of this genus with recent accounts in the literature is 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF963D8FE16601C" authority="Rehn, 1911" authorityName="Rehn" authorityYear="1911" box="[151,464,1533,1559]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Angela" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="peruviana">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FF963D8FEED601D" box="[151,299,1533,1558]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">P. peruviana</emphasis>
(Rehn, 1911)
</taxonomicName>
(see 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637D6163D8FD63601C" author="Rivera" box="[527,677,1533,1559]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Rivera, J. (2001) Sobre la identidad de Vates peruviana Rehn, 1911 (Mantodea: Vatidae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 42, 93 - 96." type="journal article" year="2001">Rivera 2001</bibRefCitation>
). The recently described genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637B7363D8FB08601C" ID-CoL="8NNSZ" authority="Roy" authorityName="Roy" box="[1053,1230,1533,1559]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Callivates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B7363D8FB52601D" box="[1053,1172,1533,1558]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Callivates</emphasis>
Roy
</taxonomicName>
includes a single species from 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72258EB637E586007FE2E6037" box="[310,488,1570,1596]" name="French Guiana" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">French Guiana</collectingCountry>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E986006FCD76037" ID-CoL="5X7R2" authority="Roy, 2003" authorityName="Roy" authorityYear="2003" box="[502,785,1570,1596]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Callivates" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stephanei">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E986006FD4C6037" box="[502,650,1571,1596]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">C. stephanei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DFD6007FCD76037" author="Roy" box="[659,785,1570,1596]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Roy, R. (2003) Callivates stephanei n. gen. n. sp. des Guyanes (Dictyoptera, Mantidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 108 (3), 233 - 235." type="journal article" year="2003">Roy, 2003</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C726006FC156037" ID-CoL="8P33Y" authority="Serville" authorityName="Serville" box="[796,979,1570,1596]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Zoolea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C726006FCA86037" box="[796,878,1571,1596]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Zoolea</emphasis>
Serville
</taxonomicName>
includes five species, all treated in an excellent review published by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E94606DFCD26069" author="Roy" box="[506,788,1608,1634]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Roy, R. &amp; Ehrmann, R. (2009) Revision du Genre Zoolea Audinet-Serville (Mantodea, Mantidae, Vatinae). Revue Francaise d'Entomologie (N. S.), 31 (1), 1 - 22." type="journal article" year="2009">Roy &amp; Ehrmann (2009)</bibRefCitation>
. A photo of the 
<typeStatus id="54ACD5D52258EB637CA3606DFBF26069" box="[973,1076,1608,1634]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637B34606DFA476069" ID-CoL="4NGYL" authority="Olivier, 1792" authorityName="Olivier" authorityYear="1792" box="[1114,1409,1608,1634]" class="Insecta" family="Acanthopidae" genus="Pseudacanthops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lobipes">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637B34606DFB0B606A" box="[1114,1229,1608,1633]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Z. lobipes</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637BB2606DFABF6069" author="Olivier" box="[1244,1401,1608,1634]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Olivier, G. A. (1792) Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire Naturelle, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Panckoucke, Paris, 7, 827 pp." type="book" year="1792">Olivier, 1792</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
is found in Salazar (2006).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA86B772258EB637FA860B7FEE36117" blockId="11.[151,1437,152,2007]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FA860B7FE9360A7" box="[198,341,1682,1708]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Antemninae">Antemninae</taxonomicName>
is a small Central American subfamily with just one described species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637BC560B6FF1F60D9" ID-CoL="66XSX" authority="Stal, 1877" authorityName="Stal" authorityYear="1877" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Antemna" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rapax">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637BC560B6FA9960A7" box="[1195,1375,1683,1708]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Antemna rapax</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637A0960B7FF1F60D9" author="Stal" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Stal, C. (1877) Systema Mantodeorum. Essai d'une Systematization nouvelle des Mantidees. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4, 1 - 91." type="journal article" year="1877">Stål, 1877</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637F89609DFDD960D9" author="Salazar" box="[231,543,1720,1746]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stiewe (2009)</bibRefCitation>
published a photo of the 
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<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637CB2609DFE8D60FC" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Phyllomantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laurifolia">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637CB2609DFAC260DA" box="[988,1284,1720,1745]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Phyllomantis laurifolia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637A62609DFE8D60FC" author="Saussure" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, a synonym of 
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<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E9360F8FDA460FD" box="[509,610,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">A. rapax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. A likely member of this subfamily also occurs in 
<collectingCountry id="F3002BE72258EB637BDC60F8FAE360FC" box="[1202,1317,1757,1783]" name="Colombia" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Colombia</collectingCountry>
(Agudelo 
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637FF96126FF176117" box="[151,209,1795,1820]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">et al.</emphasis>
2002).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA86B772258EB647FA8610DFB5A633C" blockId="11.[151,1437,152,2007]" lastBlockId="12.[151,1437,152,1447]" lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="56" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FA8610DFE976149" box="[198,337,1832,1858]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Photinainae">Photinainae</taxonomicName>
is a heterogeneous assemblage of 12 genera, all distributed in the Neotropics. The name 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637FF96168FEE4616C" box="[151,290,1869,1895]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Photinainae">Photinainae</taxonomicName>
(formerly 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637ECD6168FDE5616C" box="[419,547,1869,1895]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Photininae">Photininae</taxonomicName>
) was recently amended to avoid homonymy with 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637B1A6168FA5A616C" box="[1140,1436,1869,1895]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Photininae">Photininae (Lampyridae)</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637FF16157FE1C6187" author="Svenson" box="[159,474,1906,1932]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Svenson, G. J. &amp; Branham, M. A. (2007) Photinini LeConte, 1881 (Insecta, Coleoptera) and Photininae Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Insecta, Mantodea): proposed resolution of homonymy between family-group names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 64 (4), 1 - 9." type="journal article" year="2007">Svenson &amp; Branham 2007</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E826156FD3F6187" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[492,761,1906,1932]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Macromantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E826156FD416187" box="[492,647,1907,1932]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Macromantis</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
, which includes the largest mantids of the region, consists of four well-defined species (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637E9E61BDFDBE61B9" author="Roy" box="[496,632,1944,1970]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Roy, R. (2002 b) Revision du genre Neotropical Macromantis Saussure, 1871 (Dictyoptera, Mantidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 107, 403 - 418." type="journal article" year="2002" yearSuffix="b">Roy 2002b</bibRefCitation>
). 
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637DE261BDFC6861B9" author="Salazar" box="[652,942,1944,1970]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Salazar, J. A. &amp; Stiewe M. B. D. (2009) Sobre algunos tipos de Mantodea Americanos depositados en el Museo Britanico de Historia Natural. Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 13 (1), 127 - 139." type="journal article" year="2009">Salazar &amp; Stiewe (2009)</bibRefCitation>
published a photo and additional remarks of the 
<typeStatus id="54ACD5D52258EB637F8F6198FE8E61DC" box="[225,328,1981,2007]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637E006198FCA561DC" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[366,867,1981,2007]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Macromantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nicaraguae">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637E006198FDDD61DD" box="[366,539,1981,2006]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">M. nicaraguae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8616862258EB637D4F6198FCA561DC" author="Saussure" box="[545,867,1981,2007]" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F42258EB637C006198FB9261DC" authority="Burmeister" authorityName="Burmeister" box="[878,1108,1981,2007]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Photina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="11" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B7652258EB637C006198FC0D61DD" box="[878,971,1981,2006]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="55">Photina</emphasis>
Burmeister
</taxonomicName>
includes five poorly known species and is in need of revision. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647D5B66BDFC1C66B9" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" box="[565,986,152,178]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647D5B66BDFD1366BA" box="[565,725,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Metriomantis</emphasis>
Saussure &amp; Zehntner
</taxonomicName>
was partially reviewed by Lombardo (1999), who also illustrated the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647C7D6698FB2D66DC" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[787,1259,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ovata">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647C7D6698FC4566DD" box="[787,899,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. ovata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647CE36698FB2D66DC" author="Saussure" box="[909,1259,189,215]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Saussure, H. de. &amp; Zehntner, L. (1894) Fam. Mantidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta Orthoptera. Societe Entomologique, 1, 123 - 197." type="journal article" year="1894">Saussure &amp; Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B946698FE9B66F7" authority="Lombardo, 1999" authorityName="Lombardo" authorityYear="1999" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B946698FA5B66DD" box="[1274,1437,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. boliviana</emphasis>
Lombardo, 1999
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647EF666C7FCE466F7" authority="Lombardo, 1999" authorityName="Lombardo" authorityYear="1999" box="[408,802,226,252]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647EF666C7FD8966F0" box="[408,591,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. occidentalis</emphasis>
Lombardo, 1999
</taxonomicName>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647C4066C7FC1266F7" author="Rivera" box="[814,980,226,252]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2003) Apuntes sobre algunas especies de Photininae del Peru, incluyendo la descripcion de una nueva especie de Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897 (Dyctyoptera: Mantidae: Photininae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 43, 7 - 12." type="journal article" year="2003">Rivera (2003)</bibRefCitation>
described the female of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B9266C7FA5366F0" box="[1276,1429,226,251]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B9266C7FA5366F0" box="[1276,1429,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The female of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647E25672DFDC1672A" box="[331,519,264,289]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647E25672DFDC1672A" box="[331,519,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. occidentalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was subsequently described by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647CFF672DFB2B6729" author="Lombardo" box="[913,1261,264,290]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Lombardo, F. &amp; Agabiti, B. (2001) The mantids from Ecuador, with some biogeographic considerations. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10, 89 - 104." type="journal article" year="2001">Lombardo &amp; Agabiti (2001)</bibRefCitation>
, as the female allotype described by Lombardo (1999) was not conspecific with the 
<typeStatus id="54ACD5D5225FEB647C8D6708FB96674C" box="[995,1104,301,327]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
. The genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B8C6708FF0D6767" authority="Piza" authorityName="Piza" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Margaromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B8C6708FA5A674D" box="[1250,1436,301,326]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Margaromantis</emphasis>
Piza
</taxonomicName>
includes a single species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647D646777FCBE6767" authority="Rehn, 1916" authorityName="Rehn" authorityYear="1916" box="[522,888,338,364]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Margaromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="planicephala">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647D646777FD086760" box="[522,718,338,363]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. planicephala</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647DB16777FCA96767" author="Rehn" box="[735,879,338,364]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1916) The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911 Dermaptera and Orthoptera I, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 42, 257 - 266." type="journal article" year="1916">Rehn, 1916</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. The taxonomic and nomenclatural history of this genus and species is complicated, mostly because 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647C4D675DFC1D679A" box="[803,987,376,401]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Margaromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647C4D675DFC1D679A" box="[803,987,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Margaromantis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
remained overlooked by taxonomists since its original description (Piza 1982a). Later contributions (Lombardo 1999; 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647BEA67B8FA5E67BC" author="Kocak" box="[1156,1432,413,439]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Kocak, A. O. &amp; Kemal, M. (2008) (Dictyoptera: Mantidae). Two replacement names in the genus group taxa of Dictyoptera from Colombia and Arabian Peninsula. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara, Miscellaneous Papers, 141, 6." type="journal article" year="2008">Koçak &amp; Kemal 2008</bibRefCitation>
; Koçak 2008; 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E5367E7FDC567D7" author="Ozdikmen" box="[317,515,450,476]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Ozdikmen, H. (2008) A substitute name for Rehniella Lombardo, 1999 (Mantodea: Mantidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology, 3 (2), 765 - 766." type="journal article" year="2008">Ozdikmen 2008</bibRefCitation>
) unwillingly added further confusion. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647C8E67E7FB5D67D7" author="Rivera" box="[992,1179,450,476]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2010 b) Lost and Found: Rediscovery of the genus Margaromantis Piza, 1982 and consequential nomenclatural changes in the genus Colombiella Kocak &amp; Kemal, 2008 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa, 2529, 65 - 68." type="journal article" year="2010" yearSuffix="b">Rivera (2010b)</bibRefCitation>
helped to clarify the identity of this genus and its sole species and, as a result, several new synonyms were proposed (see 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647A2367CDFF20642C" author="Rivera" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2010 b) Lost and Found: Rediscovery of the genus Margaromantis Piza, 1982 and consequential nomenclatural changes in the genus Colombiella Kocak &amp; Kemal, 2008 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa, 2529, 65 - 68." type="journal article" year="2010" yearSuffix="b">Rivera 2010b</bibRefCitation>
for 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E706428FEEA642C" author="Rivera" box="[286,300,525,551]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2010 a) Chromatophotina, a remarkable new genus of praying mantid from the Neotropical Region and its two new species (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa, 2415, 22 - 32." type="journal article" year="2010" yearSuffix="a">a</bibRefCitation>
complete review). Detailed descriptions of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647C0B6428FBF1642D" box="[869,1079,525,550]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Margaromantis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="planicephala">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647C0B6428FBF1642D" box="[869,1079,525,550]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. planicephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are found, as 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B9F6428FEF36440" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="planicephala">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B9F6428FEF36440" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Metriomantis planicephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E0B6417FE3B6447" author="Rehn" box="[357,509,562,588]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1916) The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911 Dermaptera and Orthoptera I, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 42, 257 - 266." type="journal article" year="1916">Rehn (1916)</bibRefCitation>
and, as 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647D0D6417FCBB6440" box="[611,893,562,587]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Rehniella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="planicephala">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647D0D6417FCBB6440" box="[611,893,562,587]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Rehniella planicephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in Lombardo (1999). 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647BFD6417FA5A6447" authority="Giglio-Tos" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" box="[1171,1436,562,588]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Photinella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647BFD6417FAD76440" box="[1171,1297,562,587]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Photinella</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos
</taxonomicName>
comprises five poorly known species and is in need of revision; the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647BFC647DFA5D6479" ID-CoL="7BWPC" authority="Rehn, 1907" authorityName="Rehn" authorityYear="1907" box="[1170,1435,600,626]" class="Insecta" family="Thespidae" genus="Thesprotia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647BFC647DFB31647A" box="[1170,1271,600,625]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">P. brevis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647A66647DFA556479" author="Rehn" box="[1288,1427,600,626]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1907) Non-saltatorial and Acridoid Orthoptera from Sapucay, Paraguay. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 151 - 165." type="journal article" year="1907">Rehn, 1907</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has been partially described (Lombardo 1999). 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647DA36458FC7E649C" authority="Beier" authorityName="Beier" box="[717,952,637,663]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Microphotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647DA36458FCA9649D" box="[717,879,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Microphotina</emphasis>
Beier
</taxonomicName>
includes a single species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B9B6458FEB164B7" authority="Saussure, 1872" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1872" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Microphotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vitripennis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B9B6458FA5A649D" box="[1269,1436,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">M. vitripennis</emphasis>
(Saussure, 1872)
</taxonomicName>
. This genus is also in need of revision since undescribed species certainly occur. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647FF964EDFE0764E9" authority="Rivera" authorityName="Rivera" box="[151,449,712,738]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Chromatophotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647FF964EDFEAC64EA" box="[151,362,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Chromatophotina</emphasis>
Rivera
</taxonomicName>
was recently described and includes two species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B7364EDFB5E64EA" box="[1053,1176,712,737]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Chromatophotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="awajun">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B7364EDFB5E64EA" box="[1053,1176,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. awajun</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647BBA64EDFF2A650C" authority="(Rivera 2010a)" baseAuthorityName="Rivera" baseAuthorityYear="2010" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Chromatophotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cofan">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647BBA64EDFAFC64EA" box="[1236,1338,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. cofan</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647A2564EDFF22650C" author="Rivera" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2010 a) Chromatophotina, a remarkable new genus of praying mantid from the Neotropical Region and its two new species (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa, 2415, 22 - 32." type="journal article" year="2010" yearSuffix="a">Rivera 2010a</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647F9664C8FD94650C" authority="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" authorityName="Saussure &amp; Zehntner" box="[248,594,749,775]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Hicetia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647F9664C8FE89650D" box="[248,335,749,774]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Hicetia</emphasis>
Saussure &amp; Zehntner
</taxonomicName>
includes two poorly known species and is in need of revision, as well. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647FF96537FE716527" authority="Giglio-Tos" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" box="[151,439,786,812]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Paraphotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647FF96537FEE86520" box="[151,302,786,811]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Paraphotina</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos
</taxonomicName>
contains two well-known species and the male genitalia of both species have been described: that of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647E18651DFD256559" authority="Saussure, 1871" authorityName="Saussure" authorityYear="1871" box="[374,739,824,850]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Paraphotina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="reticulata">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647E18651DFDCD655A" box="[374,523,824,849]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">P. reticulata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647D73651DFD1C6559" author="Saussure" box="[541,730,824,850]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Saussure, H. de. (1871) Synopsis des Mantides Americains In: Memories pour servir a L`Histoire Naturelle du Mexique, des Antilles et Etats-Unis 4 ª. Mem. 2 ests. Geneve et Bale, H. George, Genf., 186 pp." type="book" year="1871">Saussure, 1871</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647C7D651DFC706559" author="Cerda" box="[787,950,824,850]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Cerda, F. J. (1992) Sinonimia del genero Paraphotina Giglio-Tos (Dictyoptera: Mantidae: Photininae). Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana (NS), 7 (1), 13 - 17." type="journal article" year="1992">Cerdá (1992)</bibRefCitation>
and of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B7A651DFEAF657C" authority="Lombardo, 1998 (Lombardo 1998)" authorityName="Lombardo, 1998 (Lombardo" authorityYear="1998" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Metriomantis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B7A651DFB0E655A" box="[1044,1224,824,849]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">P. occidentalis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647BBF651DFA5B6559" author="Lombardo" box="[1233,1437,824,850]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Lombardo, F. (1998) A new species of Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915 from Peru (Insecta: Mantodea). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 7, 213 - 215." type="journal article" year="1998">Lombardo, 1998</bibRefCitation>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647FF06578FEA6657C" author="Lombardo" box="[158,352,861,887]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Lombardo, F. (1998) A new species of Paraphotina Giglio-Tos, 1915 from Peru (Insecta: Mantodea). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 7, 213 - 215." type="journal article" year="1998">Lombardo 1998</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647E1A6578FD57657C" authority="Giglio-Tos" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" box="[372,657,861,887]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Orthoderella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647E1A6578FDCA657D" box="[372,524,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Orthoderella</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos
</taxonomicName>
contains two species, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647CF86578FB13657C" authority="Giglio-Tos, 1897" authorityName="Giglio-Tos" authorityYear="1897" box="[918,1237,861,887]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Orthoderella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornata">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647CF86578FBC1657D" box="[918,1031,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">O. ornata</emphasis>
Giglio-Tos, 1897
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647A636578FEFF6597" authority="Rivera, 2003" authorityName="Rivera" authorityYear="2003" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Orthoderella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="delucchii">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647A636578FA5A657D" box="[1293,1436,861,886]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">O. delucchii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647FF965A7FEFF6597" author="Rivera" box="[151,313,898,924]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2003) Apuntes sobre algunas especies de Photininae del Peru, incluyendo la descripcion de una nueva especie de Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897 (Dyctyoptera: Mantidae: Photininae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 43, 7 - 12." type="journal article" year="2003">Rivera, 2003</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; male genitalia of both species have been described (
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647CAB65A7FBA46597" author="Rivera" box="[965,1122,898,924]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2003) Apuntes sobre algunas especies de Photininae del Peru, incluyendo la descripcion de una nueva especie de Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897 (Dyctyoptera: Mantidae: Photininae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 43, 7 - 12." type="journal article" year="2003">Rivera 2003</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B1665A7FA5A6597" authority="Burmeister" authorityName="Burmeister" box="[1144,1436,898,924]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Cardioptera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B1665A7FACB6590" box="[1144,1293,898,923]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Cardioptera</emphasis>
Burmeister
</taxonomicName>
includes at least five species and was reviewed by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647D93658DFBB465C9" author="Heitzmann-Fontenelle" box="[765,1138,936,962]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Heitzmann-Fontenelle, T. J. (1968 b) Revisao dos Mantodea do genero Cardioptera Burmeister 1838. Studia Entomologica, 12, 245 - 272." type="journal article" year="1968" yearSuffix="b">Heitzmann-Fontenelle (1968b)</bibRefCitation>
, with descriptions of the male genitalia. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647E2565E8FD8A65EC" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[331,588,973,999]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Coptopteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647E2565E8FE1A65ED" box="[331,476,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Coptopteryx</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
is another diverse genus, with about 20 species; it is in need of revision as no recent work has been done on its species. The major references on the taxonomy of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647BC365D7FAF86200" box="[1197,1342,1010,1035]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Coptopteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647BC365D7FAF86200" box="[1197,1342,1010,1035]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Coptopteryx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are still 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647FF9623DFEF66239" author="Rehn" box="[151,304,1048,1074]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rehn, J. A. G. (1913) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Argentina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 65, 273 - 275, 284 - 303." type="journal article" year="1913">Rehn (1913)</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E53623DFDD06239" author="Giglio-Tos" box="[317,534,1048,1074]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Giglio-Tos, E. (1915) Mantidi esotici. Generi e specie nuove. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 46, 31 - 108." type="journal article" year="1915">Giglio-Tos (1915)</bibRefCitation>
and 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647D3F623DFCC56239" author="Werner" box="[593,771,1048,1074]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Werner, F. (1925) Zur Kenntnis amerikanischer Mantodeen (Orthoptera, Oothecaria). Konowia, 4 (3 - 4), 160 - 168." type="journal article" year="1925">Werner (1925)</bibRefCitation>
. Species identification with these references alone may still be difficult. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E0C6218FDCA625C" author="Zapata" box="[354,524,1085,1111]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Zapata, S. (1966) Morfologia y Sistematica de Coptopteryx gayi (Blanchard, 1851) (Mantidae). Publicaciones del Centro de Estudios Entomologicos, Universidad de Chile, 8, 23 - 43." type="journal article" year="1966">Zapata (1966)</bibRefCitation>
provided a detailed description of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647CDD6218FB36625C" authority="Blanchard, 1851" authorityName="Blanchard" authorityYear="1851" box="[947,1264,1085,1111]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Coptopteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gayi">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647CDD6218FBCD625D" box="[947,1035,1085,1110]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. gayi</emphasis>
(Blanchard, 1851)
</taxonomicName>
, including the male genitalia, which also were illustrated by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647DA86247FC2F6277" author="Jantsch" box="[710,1001,1122,1148]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Jantsch, L. J. &amp; Pozza, M. (2001) Genitalia de Coptopteryx gayi e C. argentina (Mantodea, Vatidae, Photininae). Biociencias, 9, 45 - 50." type="journal article" year="2001">Jantsch &amp; Pozza (2001)</bibRefCitation>
, along with the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647AEF6246FE3262A9" authority="Burmeister, 1864" authorityName="Burmeister" authorityYear="1864" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Coptopteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argentina">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647AEF6246FECE62AA" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. argentina</emphasis>
(Burmeister, 1864)
</taxonomicName>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647E9162ADFD6262A9" author="Rivera" box="[511,676,1160,1186]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. (2003) Apuntes sobre algunas especies de Photininae del Peru, incluyendo la descripcion de una nueva especie de Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897 (Dyctyoptera: Mantidae: Photininae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 43, 7 - 12." type="journal article" year="2003">Rivera (2003)</bibRefCitation>
illustrated the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B4862ADFAA362A9" ID-CoL="9H8P" authority="Beier, 1858" authorityName="Beier" authorityYear="1858" box="[1062,1381,1160,1186]" class="Insecta" family="Acanthopidae" genus="Acontista" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevipennis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B4862ADFB1762AA" box="[1062,1233,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. brevipennis</emphasis>
Beier, 1858
</taxonomicName>
, and images of both sexes of this species were published in 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647C7D6288FBEB62CC" author="Rivera" box="[787,1069,1197,1223]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Rivera, J. &amp; Novoa, S. (2006) Observaciones preliminares sobre el habitat de Coptopteryx brevipennis Beier, 1958 en Ayacucho, Peru y notas sobre la biogeografia del genero (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photininae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 45, 19 - 25." type="journal article" year="2006">Rivera &amp; Novoa (2006)</bibRefCitation>
. 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647B596288FAD862CC" authority="Saussure" authorityName="Saussure" box="[1079,1310,1197,1223]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Brunneria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647B596288FB7662CD" box="[1079,1200,1197,1222]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Brunneria</emphasis>
Saussure
</taxonomicName>
comprises six species, including 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647EC562F6FD3662E7" authority="Scudder, 1869" authorityName="Scudder" authorityYear="1869" box="[427,752,1234,1260]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Brunneria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borealis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647EC562F6FDF462E7" box="[427,562,1235,1260]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">B. borealis</emphasis>
Scudder, 1869
</taxonomicName>
, a well-known parthenogenetic species with a Nearctic distribution. Very little is known of the Neotropical species and the genus needs revision. Only the male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647E4D6338FD2C633C" authority="Agudelo &amp; Chica, 2002" authorityName="Agudelo &amp; Chica" authorityYear="2002" box="[291,746,1309,1335]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Brunneria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orinocensis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647E4D6338FE0C633D" box="[291,458,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">B. orinocensis</emphasis>
Agudelo &amp; Chica, 2002
</taxonomicName>
is known (
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647C056338FB49633C" author="Agudelo" box="[875,1167,1309,1335]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Agudelo, A. &amp; Chica, L. (2002 a) Una nueva especie de Brunneria Saussure, 1869 de Colombia (Mantodea: Vatidae: Photininae). Boletin Cientifico del Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas, 6, 83 - 83." type="journal article" year="2002" yearSuffix="a">Agudelo &amp; Chica 2002a</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA86B77225FEB647FA86367FBF863AC" blockId="12.[151,1437,152,1447]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647FA86367FEBE6357" ID-CoL="8PRX4" box="[198,376,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Choeradodinae">Choeradodinae</taxonomicName>
is comprised of a single genus in the Neotropics, 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647C9E6366FA5A6357" ID-CoL="8NPKW" authority="Serville. Roy" authorityName="Serville. Roy" authorityYear="2004" box="[1008,1436,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Choeradodis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647C9E6366FB416357" box="[1008,1159,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">Choeradodis</emphasis>
Serville. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647A6C6367FA5A6357" author="Roy" box="[1282,1436,1346,1372]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Roy, R. (2004 b) Revision et phylogenie des Choeradodini Kirby, 1904 (Dictyoptera, Mantidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 109, 113 - 128." type="journal article" year="2004" yearSuffix="b">Roy (2004b)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
reviewed this genus and provided descriptions of the male genitalia and a key to separate the species. 
<bibRefCitation id="EF861686225FEB647FF963A8FEB563AC" author="Lombardo" box="[151,371,1421,1447]" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" refString="Lombardo, F. (2000 a) A review of the genus Decimiana Uvarov, 1940 (Insecta: Mantodea), with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 150, 159 - 171." type="journal article" year="2000" yearSuffix="a">Lombardo (2000a)</bibRefCitation>
provided further details on 
<taxonomicName id="4C1710F4225FEB647DD463A8FBFC63AC" ID-CoL="5XYNR" authority="Latreille, 1833" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1833" box="[698,1082,1421,1447]" class="Insecta" family="Mantidae" genus="Choeradodis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mantodea" pageId="12" pageNumber="56" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rhombicollis">
<emphasis id="B963B765225FEB647DD463A8FCA963AD" box="[698,879,1421,1446]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="56">C. rhombicollis</emphasis>
(Latreille, 1833)
</taxonomicName>
.
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