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Mantophasmatidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
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.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Mantophasmatodea
family
Mantophasmatidae

Name

Synonyms
Raptophasmatidae
Homonyms
Mantophasmatidae
Common names
gladiators 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 3539:3
  3. CoL2006/ITIS
  4. CoL2006/ITIS
  5. 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.
  6. Eberhard, M. J. B, 2009: Kurze Vorstellung der Ordnung Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologica Austriaca, vol. 16. 73-84.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Klass, Klaus D., Oliver Zompro, Niels P. Kristensen, and Joachim Adis, 2002: Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics. Science, vol. 296, no. 5572. 1456-1459.
  10. Klass, Picker, Damgaard, van Noort & Tojo. 2003. The Taxonomy, Genitalic Morphology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1):48
  11. Zompro, Adis & Weitschat. 2002. A Review of the Order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 241:271
  12. Zompro, Adis, Bragg, Naskrecki, Meakin, Wittneben & Saxe. 2003. A new genus and species of Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia, with notes on behaviour. Cimbebasia 19(December):13-24
  13. Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis. 2002. In Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis. Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics. Science 296:1456
  14. Zompro. 2008. Mantophasmatodea - Gladiatoren im Insektenreich [Mantophasmatodea - gladiators in the insect kingdom]. Arthropoda 16(1):4-25
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