Tenodera
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| Adult male Tenodera sinensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Mantidae |
| Subfamily: | Mantinae |
| Tribe: | Polyspilotini |
| Genus: | Tenodera Burmeister, 1838 |
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Tenodera is a genus of mantis in the subfamily Mantinae of the family Mantidae which contains several species of praying mantises. The species in this genus can be found in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia.[1]
Description
Specifically, mantids in this genus can be identified by their mid and hind femora which contain an apical spine.
Species
- Tenodera acuticauda (Yang, 1997)
- Tenodera angustipennis Saussure,1896 (Narrow-winged mantis)
- Tenodera aridifolia (Stoll, 1813)
- Tenodera australasiae (Leach, 1814) (Purple-winged Mantis)
- Tenodera brevipennis (Saussure, 1871)
- Tenodera capitata (Saussure, 1869)
- Tenodera caudafissilis (Wang, 1992)
- Tenodera chloreudeta (Burmeister, 1838)
- Tenodera costalis (Blanchard, 1853)
- Tenodera equatoriana (La Greca, 1993)
- Tenodera fasciata (Olivier, 1792)
- Tenodera gambiensis (Beier, 1931)
- Tenodera herbacea (Serville, 1839)
- Tenodera houyi (Werner, 1928)
- Tenodera intermedia (Saussure, 1870)
- Tenodera iringana (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
- Tenodera nimbana (Roy, 1963)
- Tenodera parasinensis (Otte & Spearman, 2004)
- Tenodera philippina (Beier, 1929)
- Tenodera rungsi (Uvarov, 1935)
- Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) (Chinese Mantis)
- Tenodera stotzneri (Werner, 1929)
- Tenodera superstitiosa (Fabricius, 1781)
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