EpaphroditidaeBurmeister (1838) Handb. Ent., Burm., 2. 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.Svenson GJ, Hardy, Cahill, Wightman, Wieland (2015) Systematic Entomology DOI:10.1111/syen.(12134): 1-82.
Subfamilies and genera The Mantodea Species FileMantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 15 July 2020) 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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