Chlidonoptera is an African genus of praying mantis in the family Hymenopodidae and tribe Hymenopodini. Svenson et al. 2015. Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant-mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with a new suprageneric classification. Systematic Entomology 40(4), 789–834
See also List of mantis genera and species
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