Mantophasmatodea

Taxonavigation[edit]

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
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Notoptera
Subordo: Mantophasmatodea
Familiae (1): Mantophasmatidae

Name[edit]

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

References[edit]

Primary references[edit]

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[edit]

Adis, J.; Zompro, O.; Moombolah-Goagoses, E.; Marais, E. 2002: Gladiators: a new order of insect. Scientific American, 287: 60–65.
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.
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: 443–462.
Eberhard, M.J.B.; Picker, M.D.; Klass, K.-D. (in press): Sympatry in Mantophasmatodea, with the description of a new species and phylogenetic considerations. Organisms diversity & evolution, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0037-8
Huang, D.-y.; Nel, A.; Zompro, O.; Waller, A. 2008: Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften, 95: 947–952.
Klass, K.-D. 2002: Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? [Response to technical comment by Erich Tilgner]. Science, 297: 731.
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-Palaeontologischen Institut der Universitaet Hamburg, 89: 85–116.
Zompro, O.; Adis, J.; Weitschat, W. 2002: A review of the order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 241: 269–279.

Links[edit]

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 [Note: treated as order]

Vernacular names[edit]

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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