Mantophasmatodea

Mantophasma zephyra

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Mantophasmatodea
Familiae (1): Mantophasmatidae

Name

Mantophasmatodea Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis in Klass et al., 2002

References

Primary references

• Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. & Adis, J. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics. Science 296: 1456–1459. DOI: 10.1126/science.1069397. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Adis, J.; Zompro, O.; Moombolah-Goagoses, E.; Marais, E. 2002: Gladiators: a new order of insect. Scientific American, 287: 60–65.
• Arillo, A. & Engel, M.S. 2006. Rock crawlers in Baltic amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea). American Museum Novitates 3539: 1–10. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3539[1:RCIBAN]2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/5817 . BHL. Reference page.  [Note: treated as suborder]
• Damgaard, J., Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D. & Buder, G. 2008. Phylogeny of the heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 443–462. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.026 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Eberhard, M.J.B., Picker, M.D. & Klass, K.-D. 2011. Sympatry in Mantophasmatodea, with the description of a new species and phylogenetic considerations. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11(1): 43–59. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0037-8 . Reference page. 
• Huang, D.-y., Nel, A., Zompro, O. & Waller, A. 2008. Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften 95: 947–952. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0412-x . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Klass, K.-D. 2002: Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? [Response to technical comment by Erich Tilgner]. Science, 297: 731.
• Zompro, O. 2005. Inter- and intra-ordinal relationships of the Mantophasmatodea, with comments on the phylogeny of polyneopteran orders (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89: 85–116. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Zompro, O., Adis, J. & Weitschat, W. 2002. A review of the order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241(3): 269–279. DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00080 . Reference page. 

Links

• Tree of Life Web Project. 2003. Mantophasmatodea. Gladiators. Version 01 January 2003 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Iziko Museums of Cape Town
• Mantophasmatodea Species File

Vernacular names

English: gladiators, heelwalkers, rock crawlers
Nordfriisk: Haielluupern
magyar: Tücsöksáskák
日本語: カカトアルキ目 (踵行目)
한국어: 만토파스마토데목 (종행목, 당수목)

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