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Mantodea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	180000	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=180000

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mantodea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Mantodea	Burmeister 1838

Common Name

mantis

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mantodea	suborder	belongs to Orthoptera	stated without evidence	Tillyard, 1923
Mantodea	order	belongs to Blattopteroidea	stated with evidence	Sharov, 1968
Mantodea	order	belongs to Exopterygota	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Mantodea	order	belongs to Dictyoptera	stated with evidence	Grimaldi, 2003
Mantodea	order	belongs to Blattoneoptera	stated without evidence	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence, 2004
Mantodea	order	subjective synonym of Raptoriae	stated with evidence	Kluge, 2010
Mantodea	order	belongs to Dictyoptera	stated with evidence	Eades, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

25 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

152 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T.-Q. Wang and X.-B. Jin. 1995. Recent advances on the biosystematics of Mantodea from China. Journal of Orthoptera Research 4:197-198

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Neomantodea suborder	listed (PBDB)		15	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Amorphoscelioidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chaeteessoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Metallyticoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Cretomantidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Jantarimantidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Juramantidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Mantidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Praying Mantis	4	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Santanmantidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Amorphoscelites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Aragonimantis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Burmantis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Chaeteessites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cretophotina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Electromantis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Jersimantis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kazakhophotina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Vitimophotina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Mantodea Burmeister
1923	Mantodea Tillyard
1968	Mantodea Sharov
1992	Mantodea Carpenter p. 142
2003	Mantodea Grimaldi
2004	Mantodea Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence
2006	Gryllomantidae Gorochov p. 648
2012	Mantodea Eades
2014	Mantodea Misof et al.
2019	Mantodea Wipfler et al.

References

Wang T.-Q., Jin X.-B. (1995) Recent advances on the biosystematics of Mantodea from China, Journal of Orthoptera Research 4, 197-198

Tillyard R. J. (1923) Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 10 Summary of the Upper Triassic Insect fauna of Ipswich, Q. (With an Appendix describing new Hemiptera and Planipennia), The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48, 481-498

Sharov A. G. (1968) Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118, 1-216

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Grimaldi D. (2003) A revision of Cretaceous mantises and their relationships, including new taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea), American Museum Novitates 3412, 1-47

Kukalová-Peck J., Lawrence J. F. (2004) Relationships among coleopteran suborders and major endoneopteran lineages: Evidence from hind wing characters, European Journal of Entomology 101, 95-144

Gorochov A. V. (2006) New and little known orthopteroid insects (Polyneoptera) from fossil resins: communication 1, Paleontological Journal 40, 646-654

Eades D. (2012) , Polyneoptera Species File

Misof B., Liu S. L., et al (2014) Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution, Science 346, 763-767

Wipfler B., Letsch H., et al (2019) Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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