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Suborder

Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002

heel walkers; gladiators; African rock crawlers
Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002: (Otu).
Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002: (Otu).

Nomenclature (32)

  • Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002: 1456.
  • Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002 in Zompro, Adis & Weitschat, 2002
  • Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002 in Dool, Picker & Eberhard, 2022 Ecology
  • Mantophasmatodea Klass, Zompro, Kristensen & Adis, 2002 in Kreuz & Eberhard, 2022 Behavior; Anatomy/Physiology

Nomenclature references (32)

  • Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. & Adis, J. (2002) Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics. Science, 296(5572), 1456–1459.
  • Zompro, O., Adis, J. & Weitschat, W. (2002) A Review of the Order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 241, 269–279.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (2003) Cnemidolestodea: An ancient insect order resurrected. Biodiversity Journal, 4(2), 22–24.
  • Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D., Damgaard, J., Van Noort, S. & Tojo, K. (2003) The Taxonomy, Genitalic Morphology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 61(1), 3–67.
  • Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. (2004) A New Rock Crawler in Baltic Amber, with Comments on the Order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae). American Museum Novitates, 3431, 11 pp., 4 figs., 1 tbl. Available at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle//2246/2796
  • Bethoux, O. (2005) Cnemidolestodea (Insecta): an ancient order reinstated. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 3(4), 403–408.
  • Grimaldi, D.A. & Engel, M.S. (2005) In Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York. 1–755, i-xiii. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Ql6Jl6wKb88C
  • Terry, M.D. & Whiting, M.F. (2005) Mantophasmatodea and phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects. Cladistics, 21, 240–257.
  • 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-Palaeontologischen Institut der Universitaet Hamburg, 89, 85–116.
  • Arillo, A. & Engel, M.S. (2006) Rock Crawlers in Baltic Amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea). American Museum Novitates, 3539, 1–10.
  • Beutel, R.G. & Gorb, S.N. (2006) A revised interpretation of the evolution of attachment structures in Hexapoda with special emphasis on Mantophasmatodea. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 64(1), 3–25. Available at http://www.arthropod-systematics.de/
  • Zompro, O. & Adis, J. (2006) Notes on Namibian Mantophasma Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis, 2002, with descriptions of three new species (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae: Mantophasmatini). Russian Entomological Journal, 15(1), 21–24.
  • Klass, K.-D. & Eulitz, U. (2007) The tentorium and anterior head sulci in Dictyoptera and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 246(3), 205–234.
  • Klug, R. & Klass, K.-D. (2007) The potential value of the mid-abdominal musculature and nervous system in the reconstruction of interordinal relationships in lower Neoptera. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 65(1), 73–100. Available at http://www.arthropod-systematics.de/
  • Beutel, R.G. & Gorb, S.N. (2008) Evolutionary scenarios for unusual attachment devices of Phasmatodea and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Systematic Entomology, 33(3), 501–510.
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.026
  • Huang, D.-Y., Nel, A., Zompro, O. & Waller, A. (2008) Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften, 95(10), 947–952. Available at http://159.226.74.248:8000/pagelinks/142171.pdf
  • Zompro, O. (2008) Mantophasmatodea - Gladiatoren im Insektenreich [Mantophasmatodea - gladiators in the insect kingdom]. Arthropoda, 16(1), 4–25.
  • Predel, R., Neupert, S., Huetteroth, W., Kahnt, J., Waidelich, D. & Roth, S. (2012) Peptidomics-Based Phylogeny and Biogeography of Mantophasmatodea (Hexapoda). Systematic Biology, 61(4), 609–629.
  • Eberhard, M.J.B. & Eberhard, S.H. (2013) Evolution and Diversity of Vibrational Signals in Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Journal of Insect Behavior, 26(3), 352–370.
  • Roth, S., Molina, J. & Predel, R. (2014) Biodiversity, ecology, and behavior of the recently discovered insect order Mantophasmatodea. Frontiers in Zoology, 11(70), 1–20.
  • Maquart, P.-O. & Van Noort, S. (2015) Mantophasmatodea un nouvel ordre tres discret. Insectes, 178, 9–10. Available at http://https://www7.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i178-maquart-van-noorrt.pdf
  • Wipfler, B., Klug, R., Ge, S.-Q., Bai, M., Goebbels, J., Yang, X.-K. & Hoernschemeyer, T. (2015) The thorax of Mantophasmatodea, the morphology of flightlessness, and the evolution of the neopteran insects. Insectes, 31(1), 50–70.
  • Bidau, C.J., Taffarel, A. & Castillo, E.R. (2016) Breaking the rule: multiple patterns of scaling of sexual size dimorphism with body size in orthopteroid insects. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 75(1-2), 11–36. Available at http://www.redalyc.org/html/3220/322046181002/
  • Silva, D.P., Spigoloni, Z.A., Camargos, L.M., Alves de Andrade, A.F., De Marco, P., Jr. & Engel, M.S. (2016) Distributional modeling of Mantophasmatodea (Insecta: Notoptera): a preliminary application and the need for future sampling. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 16(1), 259–268.
  • Stokkeland, I. (2016) Entomologisk filateli III: Namibiske raritetar. Insekt-Nytt, 41(3-4), 55–56.
  • Dool, S.E., Kuenzel, S., Haase, M., Picker, M.D. & Eberhard, M.J.B. (2018) Variable Molecular Markers for the Order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Journal of Heredity, 109(4), 477–483.
  • Eberhard, M.J.B. & Treschnak, D. (2018) Variation of vibrational communication signals in animals depends on trait duration. Ethology, 124(12), 855–861.
  • Conti, E., Mulder, C., Lombardo, F., Marlette, A. & Costa, G. (2019) The present is the key to the past: how living fossils in Namibia share insights on the insects of Tertiary European forests. African Entomology, 27(1), 185–200.
  • Kuepper, S.C., Klass, K.-D., Uhl, G. & Eberhard, M.J.B. (2019) Comparative morphology of the internal female genitalia in two species of Mantophasmatodea. Zoomorphology, 138(1), 73–83.
  • Dool, S.E., Picker, M.D. & Eberhard, M.J.B. (2022) Limited dispersal and local adaptation promote allopatric speciation in a biodiversity hotspot. Molecular Ecology, 31, 279–295.
  • Kreuz, J. & Eberhard, M.J.B. (2022) Asymmetry of the male internal reproductive organs in Mantophasmatodea. BMC Zoology, 7(4), 9 pages.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Suborder1001
Family1012
Subfamily2114
Tribe3014
Genus144220
Species2181140