Iridopterygidae
Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae, have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent major revision of mantid taxonomy.
Former subfamilies
- Hapalomantinae: moved to new family Nanomantidae
- Iridopteryginae: now consists of two tribes in the Gonypetidae
- Nanomantinae: now in new family Nanomantidae contained:
- * Tribe Fulcinini
- * Tribe Nanomantini
- Nilomantinae: now a tribe of Hapalomantinae
- Tropidomantinae: previously containing a single tribe, the Tropidomantini
- genera previously placed incertae sedis here are now the Tropidomantinae.