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genus Popa Serville, 1839

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (36):
  • Serville. 1839. Hist. Ins. Orth. 152 >> Note: Theoclytes
  • Stal. 1856. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 13:169 >> Note: Mantodea
  • Bates. 1863. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863:473
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:65 >> Note: Iris
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:308 >> Note: Harpagites (legio)
  • Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28:386, 397 >> Note: Mantina (sbfam)
  • Saussure. 1872. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneve 23:73 >> Note: Toxoderites (legio)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 4(10):70 >> Note: Vatidae (sbfam)
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 26 >> Note: Vatides
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 13(33):75 >> Note: Popae
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1895. Hist. Madag. 23:229 >> Note: Vatiens (tribe)
  • Rehn. 1903. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1903:717 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:308 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae
  • Werner. 1906. Jh. Ver. vaterl. Naturk. Wurttemberg 62:374
  • Werner. 1908. Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg 13:124
  • Sjostedt. 1909. Wiss. Ergebn. schwed. zool. Exped. Kilimanjaro 17(3):72
  • Rehn. 1911. Genera Insect. 119:25 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae: Popae (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1914. Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. comp. R. Univ. Torino 29(684):84 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae: Popae (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1917. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 48:73 >> Note: Mantinae: Vatinae
  • Werner. 1923. Beitr. Kennt. Land.-u. Susswasserfauna Dt.-SudwAfr. 2:126 >> Note: in Namibia
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:630 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae: Popae (group)
  • Werner. 1928. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berl. 14:13 >> Note: in Cameroon
  • Beier. 1930. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 10 6:460 >> Note: Popa spurca var. pallida Saussure and Zehntner
  • Beier. 1942. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 52:117 >> Note: in Tanzania
  • La Greca. 1952. Annuar. Inst. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli 4(1):49 >> Note: Popa spurca var. pallida Saussure and Zehntner
  • Beier. 1954. Arkiv Zool. 2 7(9):185 >> Note: in E. Africa
  • Beier. 1954. Explor. Parc natn. Upemba Miss. G.F. White Fasc. 20:71
  • Beier. 1955. S. African Anim. Life 2:234 >> Note: in South Africa
  • Paulian. 1957. Faune Madagascar 5:91 >> Note: Vatidae
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):950 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae: Danuriini
  • Roy. 1964. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 26:735 >> Note: in Ivory Coast
  • Ragge & Roy. 1967. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 29:586 >> Note: in Ghana
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):11 >> Note: Mantidae: Vatinae: Danuriini
  • Roy. 1968. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 30:318 >> Note: in Congo
  • Roy & Leston. 1975. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 37:297 >> Note: in Ghana
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 287
• Type species:  Popa spurca Stal (= spurca spurca)
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species gracilis Schulthess-Schindler, 1898
• species spurca Stal, 1856
• subspecies crassa Giglio-Tos, 1917
• subspecies pallida Saussure & Zehntner, 1895
• subspecies spurca Stal, 1856

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