Haaniidae

The Haaniidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Haania. The first use of "Haaniidae" was by Giglio-Tos[1] and it was revived as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy;[2] genera in the subfamily Haaniinae havie been moved here from the family Thespidae.

Haaniidae
Haania sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Family: Haaniidae
Giglio-Tos, 1915

The new placement is in superfamily Haanioidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Genera in this family have been recorded from: India, Indochina and Malesia through to New Guinea.[3]

Subfamilies, tribes and genera

The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies:[3]

Caliridinae
  • Caliris Giglio-Tos, 1915
  • Gildella Giglio-Tos, 1915

Haaniinae
tribe Arriini
  • Arria Stal, 1877
  • Sinomiopteryx Tinkham, 1937
tribe Haaniini

References
  1. Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull, soc. ent. Ita. 46.
  2. Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196.
  3. Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 11 July 2020)


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