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genus Metallyticus Westwood, 1835

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (11):
  • Westwood. 1835. Zool. Journ. 5:441
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 1 >> Note: Amorphoscelides
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:564
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:208 >> Note: Mantidae: Eremiaphilinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1917. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 48:78 >> Note: Mantidae: Eremiaphilinae: Metallytici (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1921. Genera Insect. 177:3 >> Note: Mantidae: Eremiaphilinae: Metallytici (group)
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:39 >> Note: Mantidae: Eremiaphilinae: Metallytici (group)
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):936 >> Note: Metallyticidae
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):4 >> Note: Matallyticidae
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 221
  • Wieland. 2008. Species,Phylogeny and Evolotion 1(3):147-170 >> Metallyticus
• Type species:  Metallyticus splendidus Westwood
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Metalleutica Westwood, 1834
• species fallax Giglio-Tos, 1916
• species pallipes Giglio-Tos, 1917
• species semiaeneus Westwood, 1889
• species splendidus Westwood, 1835
• species violaceus Burmeister, 1838
• synonym chalybea Serville, 1839
• synonym purpureus Westwood, 1889
• synonym vitripennis Burmeister, 1838

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