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genus Amorphoscelis Stal, 1871

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (29):
  • Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28(3):401
  • Saussure. 1872. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneve 23:7 >> Note: Eremiaphilites (legio)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetensAkad. Handl. 4(10):7 >> Note: Amorphoscelidae (subfam.)
  • Wood-Mason. 1882. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 51:21
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 1 >> Note: Amorphoscelides
  • Wood-Mason. 1889. Cat. Mant. 4 >> Note: Amorphoscelidae (subfam.)
  • Karsch. 1892. Ent. Nachr. 18:145
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 2 13(33):58 >> Note: Discotherae
  • Karsch. 1894. Berl. ent. Z. 39:39: 269 >> Note: Amorphosceliden
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:207 >> Note: Mantidae: Amorphoscelinae
  • Bolivar. 1908. Mem. R. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 1(26)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1913. Genera Insect. 144:27 >> Note: Mantidae: Perlamantinae: Perlamantes (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1914. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 45:27 >> Note: Mantidae: Perlamantinae: Perlamantes (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:20 >> Note: Mantidae: Perlamantinae: Perlamantes (group)
  • Roy. 1962. Bull. Inst. franc. Afr. noire 24:667-709 >> Note: Revision
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):937 >> Note: Amorphoscelidae: Amorphoscelinae
  • Roy. 1965. Bull. Soc. Ent. France 70:267- >> Note: of Orient
  • Ragge & Roy. 1967. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 29:586- >> Note: Key to species in Ghana
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):5 >> Note: Amorphoscelididae: Amorphoscelidinae
  • Roy. 1973. Biologia gabon. 8(3-4):246 >> Note: Amorphoscelidae
  • Roy & Leston. 1975. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 37:297- >> Note: in Ghana
  • Balderson. 1984. Austr. CSIRO Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. 23:3 >> Note: Amorphoscelidae: Amorphoscelinae
  • Kaltenbach. 1996. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 98B:199 >> Note: Key to S. African species
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 1-519 >> Note: Synonymic catalog
  • Roy. 2007. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 112(3):387-388 >> Note: Amorphoscelis pinheyi >> Amorphoscelis
  • Roy. 2009. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 114(1):128 >> Note: Amorphoscelis pellucida >> Amorphoscelis
  • Roy & Stiewe. 2009. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 114(2):195-209 >> Amorphoscelis
  • Roy. 2010. Revue Francaise D’Entomologie. 32(1-2):65-92 >> Amorphoscelis
  • Roy. 2013. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 118(4):513-519 >> Amorphoscelis
• Type species:  Amorphoscelis annulicornis Stal
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species abyssinica Giglio-Tos, 1913
• species angolica Beier, 1969
• species annulicornis Stal, 1871
• synonym indica Giglio-Tos, 1915
• synonym keiseri Beier, 1956
• species asymmetrica Ingrisch, 1999
• species austrogermanica Werner, 1923
• synonym beieri Roy, 1962
• species bimaculata Roy, 2010
• species borneana Giglio-Tos, 1914
• species brunneipennis Beier, 1956
• species chinensis Tinkham, 1937
• species chopardi Roy, 1962
• species elegans Giglio-Tos, 1914
• synonym monodonta Roy, 1963
• species griffinii Giglio-Tos, 1913
• species grisea Bolivar, 1908
• species hainana Yang, 2002
• species hamata Roy, 2009
• species huismani Roy, 2010
• species javana Roy, 1966
• species kenyensis Stiewe, 2009
• species lamottei Roy, 1963
• species laxeretis Karsch, 1894
• synonym horni Giglio-Tos, 1914
• species machadoi Beier, 1969
• species morini Roy, 2013
• species naumanni Kaltenbach, 1983
• species nigriventer Beier, 1930
• species nubeculosa Werner, 1908
• species opaca Bolivar, 1908
• species orientalis Giglio-Tos, 1914
• synonym turkanensis Chopard, 1938
• species pallida Giglio-Tos, 1914
• species pantherina Roy, 1966
• species papua Werner, 1923
• species parva Beier, 1952
• species pellucida Westwood, 1889
• synonym ceylonica Roy, 1965
• species phaesoma Yang, 1999
• species philippina Werner, 1926
• species pinheyi Roy, 2007
• species pulchella Giglio-Tos, 1914
• synonym ugandanus Beier, 1931
• species pulchra Bolivar, 1908
• species punctata Roy, 1962
• species reticulata Werner, 1933
• synonym micans Beier, 1937
• species rufula Roy, 1966
• species siebersi Werner, 1933
• species singaporana Giglio-Tos, 1915
• species spinosa Beier, 1942
• species stellulatha Yang, 1999
• species subnigra Werner, 1933
• species sulawesiana Roy, 2010
• species sumatrana Roy, 2010
• species tigrina Giglio-Tos, 1914
• species tuberculata Roy, 1963
• species villiersi Roy, 1984

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