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genus Mesopteryx Saussure, 1870

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (11):
  • Saussure. 1870. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:235 >> Note: Thespites
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:188 >> Note: Mantites (legio)
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 14 >> Note: Mantides
  • Brunner v. W. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 2 13(33):62 >> Note: Pseudomantides
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:237 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1912. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 43:53 >> Note: Tenoderae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:419 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Tenoderae (group)
  • Beier. 1935. Genera Insect. 203:94 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):948 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):10 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 220
• Type species:  Mesopteryx alata Saussure
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species alata Saussure, 1870
• species platycephala Stal, 1877
• species robusta Wood-Mason, 1882

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