Epaphroditidae


Epaphroditidae 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.

Subfamilies and genera

The Mantodea Species File lists two subfamilies containing the genera:

[Epaphroditinae]

;tribe CallimantiniCallimantis Stal, 1877 - monotypic
;tribe EpaphroditiniEpaphrodita Serville, 1831

Gonatistinae

Gonatista Saussure, 1869Gonatistella Giglio-Tos, 1915 - monotypic

Now moved

Brancsikia Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 is in the new family Majangidae.