Gonatista

Taxobox
name = Gonatista


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image_caption = "Gonatista"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Mantodea
familia = Liturgusidae
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genus = "Gonatista"
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"Gonatista" is a genus of praying mantises that includes these species: [ [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gonatista] Ehrmann, R. 2002. Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier, Münster.] [ [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gonatista] Lombardo, F. and D. E. Perez-Gelabert. 2004. The mantids of Hispaniola, with the description of two new species (Mantodea). Boletin de la SEA 34: 35-48.]
*"G. grisea"
*"G. jaiba"
*"G. major"
*"G. phryganoides"
*"G. reticulata"According to a 2004 paper by entomologists from the University of Catania and the National Museum of Natural History this genus:

...is widely distributed in North America and the Caribbean area. There are (five) homogeneous species...whose specific differences such as chromatic models and body size, as shown in literature (Caudell 1912), do not help us in their identification. On the basis of the material studied here we have verified that a valid diagnostic character is the morphology of the external copulatory apparatus [ [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gonatista] Lombardo, F. and D. E. Perez-Gelabert. 2004. The mantids of Hispaniola, with the description of two new species (Mantodea). Boletin de la SEA 34: 35-48.]

ee also

*List of mantis genera and species

References