Species list, Checklist of Family Mantidae (Mantids) for New Zealand (Polynesia)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Family Mantidae Burmeister, 1838 (Mantids)
and region New Zealand (Polynesia)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	527 5392 17066	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	524 5387 17059	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	498 5315 16945	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	45 166 410	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Mantodea Burmeister, 1838 Mantes, Mantids, Mantis, Mantises, Praying Mantids	4 6 11	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Mantoidea Handlirsch, 1903	2 4 9	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Mantidae Burmeister, 1838 Mantids, Mantis, Praying Mantis, Praying mantises	3 8	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for New Zealand
3 Genera with 8 Species

Asiadodis Roy, 1869	Hood Mantis	1	Species	Taxom
Miomantis Saussure, 1787	African praying mantis	2	Species	Taxom
Orthodera Burmeister, 1882	New Zealand praying mantis	6	Species	Taxom

Species list for New Zealand
8 Species and 1 Subspecies

Asiadodis squilla Saussure, 1869	Asian Shield Mantis
Miomantis caffra (Saussure, 1871)	⇒ Miomantis monacha Fabricius, 1787
Miomantis monacha Fabricius, 1787
Orthodera australiana Giglio-Tos, 1917
Orthodera burmeisteri Wood-Mason, 1889	Burmeister mantid
Orthodera ministalis
Orthodera ministralis Fabricius, 1775	Australian Green Mantis
Orthodera ministralis ministralis
Orthodera novaezealandiae Colenso, 1882	New Zealand mantis

Subnodes of Mantidae with occurrences in New Zealand

Subfamily	Choeradodinae Kirby, 1904	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Miomantinae Westwood, 1889	1 2	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Orthoderinae Saussure, 1869	1 5	Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Mantidae at gbif.org
Mantidae at irmng.org
Mantidae at itis.gov