Species list, Checklist of Order Mantodea (Mantes) for Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	200 945 1372	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	199 944 1372	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	197 938 1365	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	19 43 62	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Mantodea Burmeister, 1838 Mantes, Mantids, Mantis, Mantises, Praying Mantids	2 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Tenerife
2 Families width 5 Species

Mantidae Burmeister, 1838	Mantids	3	Species	Taxom
Empusidae Burmeister, 1838	Violin mantises	2	Species	Taxom

Genera for Tenerife
4 Genera with 5 Species

Species list for Tenerife
5 Species

Ameles gracilis Brullé, 1840	Delicate Dwarf Mantis
Ameles limbata (Brullé, 1840)	⇒ Ameles gracilis Brullé, 1840
Blepharopsis mendica Fabricius, 1775	Arab Mantis
Hypsicorypha gracilis Burmeister, 1838	Sublime Conehead Mantis
Mantis religiosa Linnaeus, 1758	European mantid

Subnodes of Mantodea with occurrences in Tenerife

Superfamily	Mantoidea Handlirsch, 1903	1 2 3	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Empusidae Burmeister, 1838 Violin mantises	2 2	Genera Species	Taxom

Mantodea (Burmeister 1838)

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