Orthodera
Appearance
Orthodera | |
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Orthodera ministralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Mantidae |
Subfamily: | Orthoderinae |
Genus: | Orthodera (Burmeister, 1838) |
Species | |
Orthodera is a genus of praying mantises that can be found in Australia and Southeast Asia, with one species (Orthodera novaezealandiae) said to be the only native species of mantis of New Zealand.[1][2]
Species
[edit]- Orthodera australiana Giglio-Tos, 1917 Australia, New Zealand?[3]
- Orthodera burmeisteri Wood-Mason, 1889 Australia, New Zealand?, New Guinea, Micronesia
- Orthodera gracilis Giglio-Tos, 1917 Australia
- Orthodera gunnii Le Guillou, 1841 Australia, Tasmania
- Orthodera insularis Beier, 1952 Sumba
- Orthodera ministralis Fabricius, 1775 (garden mantis) Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii
- Orthodera novaezealandiae Colenso, 1882 (New Zealand mantis) New Zealand
- Orthodera rubrocoxata Serville, 1839 Australia
- Orthodera timorensis Werner, 1933 Timor
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ramsay, G. W. 1990. Mantodea (Insecta) with a review of aspects of functional morphology and biology. Fauna of New Zealand. ISBN 0-477-02581-1. Published 13 June 1990.
- ^ Mantodea.SpeciesFile.org genus Orthodera Burmeister, 1838
- ^ [1] Texas A&M University