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genus Melliera Saussure, 1892

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (11):
  • Saussure. 1892. Societas ent. 7:123 >> Note: Mantidae (tribe)
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1894. Biologia centr.-am. Orth. 1:147 >> Note: Mantinae (tribe)
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:254 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:312 >> Note: Mantidae: Mellierinae: Mellierae (group)
  • Rehn. 1935. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 87:205 >> Note: Mantidae: Mellierinae
  • Beier. 1937. Genera Insectorum 203:Suppl. >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Liturgusini
  • Rehn. 1951. Notul. Nat. 230:2 >> Note: Manteidae: Mellierinae
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):943 >> Note: Mantidae: Liturgusinae
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):8 >> Note: Mantidae: Liturgusinae
  • Terra. 1995. Revta bras. Ent. 39(1):56 >> Note: Vatidae: Mellierinae
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 218 >> Note: Synonymic catalog
• Type species:  Melliera atopogamia Saussure (= major), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Phaeomantis Beier, 1935
• species brevipes Beier, 1931
• species chorotega Rehn, 1935
• species major Saussure, 1872
• synonym atopogamia Saussure, 1892
• species mordax Rehn, 1935

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