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genus Acanthops Serville, 1831

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (29):
  • Serville. 1831. Annls Sci. nat. 22:52 >> Note: Mantides (family)
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:551 >> Note: Acanthopsidae (subfam.)
  • Serville. 1839. Hist. Ins. Orth. 164 >> Note: Mantides (family)
  • Blanchard. 1840. Hist. Anim. artic. 3:12 >> Note: Mantis (Acanthops)
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:59 >> Note: Acanthopsites
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Hist. nat. Mex., Mant. 139 >> Note: Acanthopsites (legio)
  • Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28:397
  • Saussure. 1872. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneve 23:73 >> Note: Acanthopsites (legio)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 4(10):84
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 24 >> Note: Acanthopsides
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:569
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 13(33):71 >> Note: Acanthopes
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1894. Biologia centr.-am. Orth. 1:181 >> Note: Harpaginae
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:282 >> Note: Mantidae: Creobotrinae
  • Rehn. 1904. Proc. U. S. natn. Mus. 27(1364):570 >> Note: Mantidae: Harpaginae
  • Chopard. 1913. Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1913:60 >> Note: Mantidae: Creobotrinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1915. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46:98 >> Note: Mantidae: Epaphroditinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:512 >> Note: Mantidae: Epaphroditinae: Epaphroditae (group)
  • Beier. 1934. Genera Insect. 196:3 >> Note: Mantidae: Hymenopodinae: Epaphroditini
  • Rehn. 1935. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 87:262 >> Note: Mantidae: Epaphroditinae
  • Uvarov. 1940. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 11 5:173 >> Note: New name for preoccupied Decimia Stal
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):938 >> Note: Hymenopodidae: Acromantinae: Epaphroditini
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):6 >> Note: Hymenopodidae: Acromantinae: Epaphroditini
  • Jantsch & Corseuil. 1988. Revta. bras. Zool. 5(2):224 >> Note: Hymenopodidae: Acromantinae: Epaphroditini
  • Lombardo. 2000. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 150:159-171, illustr >> Note: A review of the genus, removal from synonymy
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 48
  • Ippolito & Lombardo. 2004. Memoire Soc. ent. Ital. 82(2):373-378 >> Acanthops
  • Lombardo & Ippolito. 2004. Entomological Society of America 97(6):1076-1102 >> Acanthops
  • Salazar & Stiewe. 2009. Boletin Cientifico Museo de Historia Natural Universidad de Caldas 13(1):127-139 >> Note: information about A. godmani >> Acanthops
• Type species:  Acanthops fuscifolia Olivier
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species bidens Hebard, 1922
• species boliviana Chopard, 1916
• species brunneri Saussure, 1871
• species centralis Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004
• species coloradensis González, Miller & Salazar, 2011
• species contorta Gerstaecker, 1889
• species elegans Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004
• species erosa Serville, 1839
• species erosula Stal, 1877
• species falcata Stal, 1877
• synonym angulifera Westwood, 1889
• synonym griffinii Giglio-Tos, 1915
• species falcataria Goeze, 1778
• synonym angulata Lichtenstein, 1802
• synonym mortuifolia Serville, 1839
• species fuscifolia Olivier, 1792
• synonym sinuata Stoll, 1813
• species godmani Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• species occidentalis Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004
• species onorei Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004
• species parafalcata Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004
• species royi Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004

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