Miomantis caffra

Female eating a cicada

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mantodea

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 Cohort: Dictyoptera Ordo: Mantodea

Familia: Mantidae
Subfamilia: Miomantinae
Tribus: Miomantini
Genus: Miomantis
Species: Miomantis caffra

Name

Miomantis caffra Saussure, 1871

References

• Early, J. 1991: Miomatis caffra in the South Island. Weta, 14(1): 33. PDF
• Marabuto, E. 2014: The Afrotropical Miomantis caffra Saussure 1871 and M. paykullii Stal 1871: first records of alien mantid species in Portugal and Europe, with an updated checklist of Mantodea in Portugal (Insecta: Mantodea). Biodiversity data journal 2: e4117. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4117 Reference page. 
• Ramsay, G.W. 1984: Miomantis caffra, a new mantid record (Mantodea: Mantidae) for New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 8: 102–104. PDF
• Ramsay, G.W. 1990: Mantodea (Insecta), with a review of aspects of functional morphology and biology. Fauna of New Zealand, (19) ISBN 0-477-02581-1