Tenoderinae


The Tenoderinae are a subfamily of praying mantids, originally used by Brunner von Wattenwyl. It was restored as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy, and contains many genera previously placed in the subfamily Mantinae.
The new placement means that this taxon is part of the superfamily Mantoidea and infraorder Schizomantodea. Species have been recorded from: Africa, Europe and Asia.

Tribes and genera

This new subfamily now contains many genera that were previously placed elsewhere including the Mantinae. The Mantodea Species File lists two tribes here:

Paramantini

;subtribe ParamantinaAlalomantis Giglio-Tos, 1917Epitenodera Giglio-Tos, 1911Paramantis Ragge & Roy, 1967Rhomboderella Giglio-Tos, 1912Sphodromantis Stal, 1871
;subtribe TarachomantinaMantasoa Mériguet, 2005Nausicaamantis Meriguet, 2018Tarachomantis Brancsik, 1892Tisma Giglio-Tos, 1917

Tenoderini

;subtribe PolyspilotinaCataspilota Giglio-Tos, 1917Plistospilota Giglio-Tos, 1911Polyspilota Burmeister, 1838Prohierodula Bolivar, 1908
;subtribe TenoderinaMesopteryx Saussure, 1870Notomantis Tindale, 1923Tenodera Burmeister, 1838Tenomaculosa Tarapipattanakun & Unnahachote, 2025Tenospilota Roy & Ehrmann, 2014