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Mantophasmatodea

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
ORDER
Published in
Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. & Adis, J. (2002) Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics. 296, 1456–1459.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Mantophasmatodea

Name

Homonyms
Mantophasmatodea
Common names
African rock crawlers in English
African rock crawlers in English
African rock crawlers in English
African rock crawlers in English
African rock crawlers in English
gladiator in English
gladiator-bugs in English
gladiators in English
gladiators in English
gladiators in English
gladiators in English
gladiators in English
heel walkers in English
heel walkers in English
heel walkers in English
heel walkers in English
heelwalkers in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Adis, Joachim, Oliver Zompro, Esther Moombolah-Goagoses, and Eugène Marais, 2002: Gladiators: A New Order of Insect. Scientific American, vol. 287, no. 5. 60-65.
  2. Arillo & Engel. 2006. Rock Crawlers in Baltic Amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea). American Museum Novitates 3539:10 pp. 5 figs., 2 tbls.
  3. Beutel & Gorb. 2006. A revised interpretation of the evolution of attachment structures in Hexapoda with special emphasis on Mantophasmatodea. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 64(1):3-25
  4. Beutel & Gorb. 2008. Evolutionary scenarios for unusual attachment devices of Phasmatodea and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 33(3):501-510
  5. Bidau, Taffarel & Castillo. 2016. Breaking the rule: multiple patterns of scaling of sexual size dimorphism with body size in orthopteroid insects. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 75(1-2):11-36
  6. Damgaard, Jakob, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Mike D. Picker, and Gerda Buder, 2008: Phylogeny of the Heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 47, no. 2. 443-462.
  7. Damgaard, Klass, Picker & Buder. 2008. Phylogeny of the Heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (MPE) 47(2):Appendix A
  8. Eberhard, M. J. B. & S. H. Eberhard. 2013. Evolution and Diversity of Vibrational Signals in Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Journal of Insect Behavior 26(3):352-370
  9. Engel & Grimaldi. 2004. A New Rock Crawler in Baltic Amber, with Comments on the Order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae). American Museum Novitates 3431:11 pp., 4 figs., 1 tbl.
  10. Engel, Michael S., and David A. Grimaldi, 2004: A New Rock Crawler in Baltic Amber, with Comments on the Order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae). American Museum Novitates, no. 3431. 11.
  11. Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press, New York 146, 147, 224-227
  12. Hamilton. 2003. Cnemidolestodea: An ancient insect order resurrected. Biodiversity 4(2):22-24
  13. Huang, Nel, Zompro & Waller. 2008. Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften 95(10):947-952
  14. Klass & Eulitz. 2007. The tentorium and anterior head sulci in Dictyoptera and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 246(3):205-234
  15. Klass, Klaus D., M. D. Picker, J. Damgaard, S. van Noort, and K. Tojo, 2003: The taxonomy, genitalic morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen, vol. 61, no. 1. 3-67.
  16. Klass, Picker, Damgaard, van Noort & Tojo. 2003. The Taxonomy, Genitalic Morphology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1):3-67
  17. Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics. Science 296:1456
  18. Klug & Klass. 2007. The potential value of the mid-abdominal musculature and nervous system in the reconstruction of interordinal relationships in lower Neoptera. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 65(1):73-100
  19. Maquart & van Noort. 2015. Mantophasmatodea un nouvel ordre tres discret. Insectes 178:9-10
  20. Predel, Neupert, Huetteroth, Kahnt, Waidelich & Roth. 2012. Peptidomics-Based Phylogeny and Biogeography of Mantophasmatodea (Hexapoda). Systematic Biology 61(4):609-629
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