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genus Acontista Saussure, 1872

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (18):
  • Saussure. 1872. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneve 23:19, 21 >> Note: Mantites (legio); Acontista
  • Saussure. 1872. Miss. Mex., Zool. 6:236 >> Note: Mantites (legio); Acontista
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 22 >> Note: Harpagides
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:565
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1894. Biologia centr.-am. Orth. 1:130 >> Note: Mantinae (tribe); Acontista Burmeister
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:232 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Rehn. 1904. Proc. U. S. natn. Mus. 28(1364):561 >> Note: Type species design.
  • Giglio-Tos. 1914. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46:75 >> Note: Mantidae: Acontistinae; Acontista
  • Rehn. 1916. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 42:258 >> Note: Acontistes Burmeister as junior homonym; renamed Acontiothespis
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:500 >> Note: Mantidae: Acontistinae: Acontistae (group)
  • Beier. 1934. Genera Insect. 196:7 >> Note: Mantidae: Hymenopodinae: Acontistini
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):939 >> Note: Hymenopodidae: Acromantinae: Acontistini
  • Heitzmann-Fontenelle. 1965. Papeis Dep. Zool. S. Paulo 17:227
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):6 >> Note: Hymenopodidae: Acromantinae: Acontistini
  • Jantsch. 1980. 32
  • Jantsch & Corseuil. 1988. Revta. bras. Zool. 5(2):225
  • Terra. 1995. Revta bras. Ent. 39(1):23 >> Note: As synonym of Acontista; Rehn’s replacement name unnecessary because Saussure’s Acontista was available
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 1-519 >> Note: Synonymic catalog
• Type species:  Acontista concinna Perty, by subsequent designation
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Acontiothespis Rehn, 1916
• synonym Acontistella Beier, 1929
• synonym Acontistes Burmeister, 1838
• synonym Metaphotina Toledo Piza, 1967
• species amazonica Beier, 1929
• species amoenula Gerstaecker, 1889
• species aurantiaca Burmeister, 1838
• synonym bimaculata Saussure, 1870
• synonym tricolor Burmeister, 1838
• species bolivari Giglio-Tos, 1915
• species brevipennis Saussure, 1872
• species cayennensis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• species championi Kirby, 1904
• synonym quadrimaculata Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• species chopardi Giglio-Tos, 1927
• species concinna Perty, 1833
• species cordillerae Saussure, 1869
• species cubana De Zayas, 1974
• species ecuadorica Hebard, 1924
• species eximia Pascoe, 1882
• synonym paraensis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• species festae Giglio-Tos, 1915
• species fraterna Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• synonym violacea Beier, 1935
• species gracilis Chopard, 1911
• species inquinata Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
• species iriodes Hebard, 1919
• species maroniensis Chopard, 1911
• species mexicana Saussure & Zehntner, 1871
• species minima Giglio-Tos, 1915
• species multicolor Saussure, 1870
• species parva Beier, 1942
• species piracicabensis Toledo Piza, 1967
• species rehni Giglio-Tos, 1927
• species semirufa Westwood, 1889
• species vitrea Saussure & Zehntner, 1894

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