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genus Thespis Serville, 1831

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (28):
  • Serville. 1831. Annls Sci. nat. 22:54 >> Note: Mantides
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:533 >> Note: Mantis (Thespis)
  • Serville. 1839. Hist. Ins. Orth. 171 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Blanchard. 1840. Hist. Anim. artic. 3:13 >> Note: Mantis (Thespis)
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:57, 70 >> Note: Thespites
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:58 >> Note: Mantis (THESPIS)
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Hist. nat. Mex., Mant. 126 >> Note: Thespites (legio)
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Hist. nat. Mex., Mant. 57
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:277 >> Note: Thespites (legio)
  • Saussure. 1872. Miss. Mex., Zool. 6:275 >> Note: Thespites (legio)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetensAkad. Handl. 4(10):41 >> Note: Mantidae (sbfam)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetensAkad. Handl. 4(10):45
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 5 >> Note: Thespides
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:565
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 13(33):64 >> Note: Mantidae (tribe)
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1894. Biologia centr.-am. Orth. 1:155, 164
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:264 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Rehn. 1904. Proc. U. S. natn. Mus. 28(1364):565. (footnote) >> Note: Mantinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1912. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 43:30
  • Giglio-Tos. 1916. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 47:40 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae: Thespes (group)
  • Hebard. 1921. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 47:154 >> Note: Mantidae: Miopteryginae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:220 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae: Thespes (group)
  • Beier. 1935. Genera Insect. 200:23 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae: Thespini
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):944 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae: Thespini
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):9 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae: Thespini
  • Balderson. 1984. Austr. CSIRO Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. 23:5 >> Note: Mantidae: Thespinae
  • Terra. 1995. Revta bras. Ent. 39(1):39 >> Note: Thespidae: Thespinae
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 353
• Type species:  Thespis parva Drury
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Diamusonia Giglio-Tos, 1916
• species bicolor Chopard, 1913
• species dissimilis Westwood, 1889
• species exposita Beier, 1963
• species major Giglio-Tos, 1916
• species media Giglio-Tos, 1916
• species metae Hebard, 1922
• species parva Drury, 1773
• synonym minuta Goeze, 1778
• synonym vicina Saussure, 1872

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