Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)

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superfamily EREMIAPHILOIDEA
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family Amelidae
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tribe Amelini

genus Ameles Burmeister, 1838

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Ecology:
- Terrestrial.
Citations (34):
- Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:531 >> Note: Mantis (Ameles)
- Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:55, 62 >> Note: Mantites
- Saussure. 1871. Mem. Hist. nat. Mex., Mant. 98 >> Note: Thespites (legio)
- Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:249 >> Note: Ameles (Ameles)
- Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28(3):400 >> Note: Mantina (subfam.)
- Saussure. 1872. Miss. Mex., Zool. 6:258 >> Note: Thespites (legio)
- Bolivar. 1876. Sin. Orth. Espana 58 >> Note: Mantinos (tribe)
- Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 4(10):27 >> Note: Mantidae (subfam.)
- Wood-Mason. 1878. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878:263, 268 >> Note: Stridulation and Saltation
- Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodr. Eur. Orth. 64 >> Note: Thespidae (tribe)
- Finot. 1889. Faune France, Orth. 89
- Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 6 >> Note: Amelides
- Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:566
- Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 2 13(33):61 >> Note: Ameli
- Finot. 1895. Annls Soc. ent. Fr. 64:101 >> Note: Mantidae (tribe)
- Bolivar. 1898. Cat. Sinop. Orth. Iber. 23 >> Note: Ameles (Ameles)
- Tumpel. 1901. Geradfl. Mitteleurop. 236 >> Note: Mantodea
- Rehn. 1903. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1903:702 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
- Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:229 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
- Jacobson & Bianki. 1905. Prem. i Lozhn. Ross. Imp. 147 >> Note: Mantidae
- Giglio-Tos. 1915. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46:150 >> Note: Amelinae
- Chopard. 1922. Faune France 3:36 >> Note: Amelinae
- Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:158 >> Note: Amelinae
- Beier. 1935. Genera Insect. 203:34 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Amelini
- Chopard. 1943. Faune Emp. fr. 1:65 >> Note: Amelinae
- Morales Agacino. 1947. Trab. est. Fitopat. Agr. Madrid (Ser. Fitopat.) 184:22 >> Note: Amelinae
- Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):948 >> Note: Mantidae: Amelinae: Amelini
- Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):10 >> Note: Mantidae: Amelinae: Amelini
- Kaltenbach. 1977. Series Ent. 12:140 >> Note: Mantidae: Amelinae
- Demirsoy. 1979. Ent. Mitt. zool. StInst. zool. Mus. Hamburg 6(106):259
- Demirsoy. 1979. Ent. Mitt. zool. StInst. zool. Mus. Hamburg 6:259
- Kaltenbach. 1982. Fauna Saudi Arabia 4:66 >> Note: of Arabia, key to spp.
- Defaut. 1988. Trav. Lab. Ecobiologie Arthropodes Edaphiques Toulouse 6:83 >> Note: Spain, France, Morocco; key to spp.
- Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 58 >> Note: TYPE GENUS as Parameles picteti Saussure 1869
Type species: Ameles abjecta Cyrillo
No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

synonym Apterameles Beier, 1950
synonym Parameles Saussure, 1869
species abjecta Cyrillo, 1787
species aegyptiaca Werner, 1913
species africana Bolivar, 1914
species arabica Uvarov, 1939
species assoi Bolivar, 1873

subspecies assoi Bolivar, 1873
subspecies melillense Bolivar, 1914

species crassinervis Dirsch, 1927
species decolor Charpentier, 1825
species dumonti Chopard, 1943
species fasciipennis Kaltenbach, 1963
species gracilis (Brulle, 1838)

synonym limbata (Brulle, 1838)

species heldreichi Brunner, 1882

synonym cyprica Uvarov, 1936
synonym rammei Beier, 1950
synonym taurica Jakovlev, 1903

species kervillei Bolivar, 1911
species maroccana Uvarov, 1931
species massai Battiston & Fontana, 2005
species modesta Bolivar, 1914
species moralesi Bolivar, 1936

subspecies confusa Morales Agacino, 1948
subspecies moralesi Bolivar, 1936

species nana Charpentier, 1825

synonym brevis Rambur, 1839

species persa Bolivar, 1911
species picteti Saussure, 1869
species poggii Lombardo, 1986
species soror Serville, 1839
species spallanzania Rossi, 1792
species syriensis Giglio-Tos, 1915
species wadisirhani Kaltenbach, 1982

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