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genus Empusa Illiger, 1798

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (39):
  • Illiger. 1798. Verz. Kafer Preuss. 499 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Palisot de Beauvois. 1805. Ins. Afr. Amer. Orth. 110
  • Latreille. 1807. Gen. Crust. Ins. 3:90 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Serville. 1831. Annls Sci. nat. 22:47 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:544, 546 >> Note: Empusidae (sbfam)
  • Serville. 1839. Hist. Ins. Orth. 140 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Blanchard. 1840. Hist. Anim. artic. 3:10 >> Note: Empusa (EMPUSA)
  • Fischer de Waldheim. 1846. Entomographie Russ. 4:94 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Fischer. 1853. Orthop. Europ. 131 >> Note: Mantodea (famly)
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:54, 60 >> Note: Empusites
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:334 >> Note: Empusites (legio)
  • Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28(3):382 >> Note: Empusina (divis)
  • Bolivar. 1876. Sin. Orth. Espana 5 >> Note: Empusinos (tribe)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 4(10):76 >> Note: Empusidae (sbfam)
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodr. Eur. Orth. 69 >> Note: Thespidae (tribe)
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 25 >> Note: Vatides
  • Finot. 1890. Faune France, Orth. 91 >> Empusa (Empusa)
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:569
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 13(33):76 >> Note: Empusae
  • Finot. 1895. Annls Soc. ent. Fr. 64:111 >> Note: Empusidae (tribe)
  • Bolivar. 1898. Cat. Sinop. Orth. Iber. 23 >> Note: Mantidos
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:311 >> Note: Mantidae: Empusinae
  • Jacobson & Bianki. 1905. Prem. i Lozhn. Ross. Imp. 154 >> Note: Empusidae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1917. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 48:69 >> Note: Mantinae: Empusinae
  • Chopard. 1922. Faune France 3:39 >> Note: Empusinae
  • Ramme. 1922. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berl. 27:131 >> Note: Revision of European and W Asian spp.
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:636 >> Note: Mantidae: Empusinae: Empusae (group)
  • Beier. 1934. Genera Insect. 197:4 >> Note: Mantidae: Empusinae
  • Chopard. 1943. Faune Emp. fr. 1:84 >> Note: Empusinae
  • Morales Agacino. 1947. Trab. est. Fitopat. Agr. Madrid (Ser. Fitopat.) 184:32 >> Note: Empusinae
  • Paulian. 1957. Faune Madagascar 5:94 >> Note: Empusidae
  • Kaltenbach. 1963. Zool. Jab., Syst. 90:536- >> Note: Revision
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):953 >> Note: Empusidae: Empusinae
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):12 >> Note: Empusidae: Empusinae
  • Kaltenbach. 1976. Fauna Saudi Arabia 4:60
  • Lindt. 1976. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk tadzhik. SSR (Otd. biol.) 1976[1934] 30
  • Ciplak & Demirsoy. 1997. J. Orthoptera Research 6:105
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 127
  • Singh Yadav. 2018. JEZS 6(2):1242-1246 >> Note: Empusa spinosa >> Empusa
• Type species:  Empusa pauperata Fabricius (= pennata)
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Ampusa Rambur, 1839
• synonym Phantoma Risso, 1826
• species binotata Serville, 1839
• species fasciata Brulle, 1832
• species guttula (Thunberg, 1815)
• synonym dolosa Serville, 1839
• species hedenborgii Stal, 1871
• synonym hyalina Charpentier, 1835
• synonym pectinicornis Linne, 1767
• species longicollis Ramme, 1950
• species pennata (Thunberg, 1815)
• synonym brachyptera Fischer-Waldheim, 1846
• synonym clavata Goeze, 1778
• synonym egena Charpentier, 1841
• synonym europaea Fieber, 1853
• synonym humbertiana Saussure, 1869
• synonym occidentalis Fieber, 1853
• synonym pauperata Fabricius, 1781
• synonym pectinata Drury, 1770
• synonym servillii Saussure, 1872
• synonym spuria Goeze, 1778
• synonym tricornis Goeze, 1778
• synonym unicornis Saussure, 1871
• synonym variabilis Risso, 1826
• species pennicornis Pallas, 1773
• subspecies angulata Lindt, 1978
• subspecies baysunica Lindt, 1978
• subspecies brevidorsa Lindt, 1977
• subspecies buharica Lindt, 1977
• subspecies caputobtusa Lindt, 1979
• subspecies condarinica Lindt, 1977
• subspecies copetdagica Lindt, 1977
• subspecies hodshamuminica Lindt, 1976
• subspecies iliense Lindt, 1977
• subspecies lindti Otte, 2004
• subspecies longidorsa Lindt, 1977
• subspecies longoapicale Lindt, 1979
• subspecies luppovae Lindt, 1979
• subspecies mujuncumica Lindt, 1976
• subspecies pennicornis Pallas, 1773
• subspecies similis Lindt, 1978
• species romboidea Lindt, 1976
• subspecies nana Lindt, 1976
• subspecies romboidea Lindt, 1976
• species simonyi Krauss, 1902
• species spinosa Krauss, 1902
• synonym fronticornis Stoll, 1813
• synonym nympha Stoll, 1813
• synonym purpuripennis Serville, 1839
• synonym wahlbergi Stal, 1856
• species uvarovi Chopard, 1921

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