Mantophasmatodea

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Mantophasmatodea

Name

Mantophasmatodea Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis in Klass et al., 2002

References

Primary references

Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. & Adis, J. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics. Science 296: 1456–1459. DOI: 10.1126/science.1069397. Reference page.

Additional references

Adis, J., Zompro, O., Moombolah-Goagoses, E. & Marais, E. 2002. Gladiators: a new order of insect. Scientific American 287: 60–65. PDF.
Arillo, A. & Engel, M.S. 2006. Rock crawlers in Baltic amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea). American Museum Novitates 3539: 1–10. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3539[1:RCIBAN]2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/5817 . BHL. Reference page. [Note: treated as suborder]
Damgaard, J., Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D. & Buder, G. 2008. Phylogeny of the heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 443–462. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.026 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Eberhard, M.J.B., Picker, M.D. & Klass, K.-D. 2011. Sympatry in Mantophasmatodea, with the description of a new species and phylogenetic considerations. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11(1): 43–59. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0037-8 . Reference page.
Huang, D.-y., Nel, A., Zompro, O. & Waller, A. 2008. Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften 95: 947–952. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0412-x . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Klass, K.-D. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? [Response to technical comment by Erich Tilgner]. Science 297: 731. DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5582.731a .
Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D., Damgaard, J., Noort, S., van & Tojo, K. 2003. The taxonomy, genitalic morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1): 3–67. PDF. Reference page.
Zompro, O. 2005. Inter- and intra-ordinal relationships of the Mantophasmatodea, with comments on the phylogeny of polyneopteran orders (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89: 85–116. ResearchGate . Reference page.
Zompro, O. & Adis, J. 2006. Notes on Namibian Mantophasma Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis, 2002, with descriptions of three new species (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae: Mantophasmatini). Russian Entomological Journal 15(1): 21–24. PDF. Reference page.
Zompro, O., Adis, J. & Weitschat, W. 2002. A review of the order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241(3): 269–279. DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00080 . Reference page.

Links

Tree of Life Web Project. 2003. Mantophasmatodea. Gladiators. Version 01 January 2003 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Mantophasmatodea Species File

Vernacular names

English: gladiators, heelwalkers, rock crawlers
Nordfriisk: Haielluupern
magyar: Tücsöksáskák
日本語: カカトアルキ目 (踵行目)
한국어: 만토파스마토데목 (종행목, 당수목)

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Mantophasmatodea

Taxonavigation

secundum Arillo & Engel (2006)

secundum Zompro (2005); Zompro & Adis (2006)

secundum Klass et al. (2003); Damgaard et al. (2008)