Tropidomantinae is a subfamily of mantises in the new (2019) family Nanomantidae. Within the single tribe Tropidomantini there are six genera, distributed in Asia and the Pacific.
Tribes and Genera
The Mantodea Species File lists two tribes:
- tribe Epsomantini (monotypic)
- Epsomantis <small>Giglio-Tos, 1915</small> (monotypic)
- tribe Tropidomantini
- Eomantis <small>Giglio-Tos, 1915</small>
- Oligocanthopus <small>Beier, 1935</small> - monotypic O. ornata
- Pliacanthopus <small>Giglio-Tos, 1927</small> (synonym Xanthomantis )
- Sinomantis <small>Beier, 1933</small> - monotypic S. denticulata
- Tropidomantis <small>Stal, 1877</small>
NB: Several genera, previously placed here, have now been moved to the Fulciniinae, Hapalomantinae and Nanomantinae.
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