Epaphroditidae

Epaphroditidae^[1] is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Before 2015, it had been placed as the subfamily Epaphroditinae, in the Hymenopodidae, but is now excluded.^[2]

Subfamilies and Genera

The Mantodea Species File^[3] lists two subfamilies containing the genera:

Epaphroditinae

tribe Callimantini

• Callimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic (C. antillarum Saussure, 1859)

tribe Epaphroditini

• Epaphrodita Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

• Gonatista Saussure, 1869
• Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic (G. nigropicta Westwood, 1889)

Now moved

• Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new (2019) family Majangidae.

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