Leptomantella

Leptomantella
	Leptomantella cf. tonkinae found in Cát Tiên National Park
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Leptomantellidae
Genus:	Leptomantella; Burmeister, 1838
Synonyms
	Leptomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915

Leptomantella^[2] is a genus of praying mantids and typical of the new (2019) family Leptomantellidae. Species have been recorded from Asia.^[3]^[4]

Previously placed here as a subgenus, the genus Aetaella was erected by Hebard in 1920 and has now been restored.^[5]^[6]

Species[edit]

The Mantodea Species File^[3] lists:

Leptomantella albella (Burmeister, 1838) - type species (as Mantis albella Burmeister)
Leptomantella ceylonica Beier, 1956
Leptomantella fragilis Westwood, 1889
Leptomantella indica Giglio-Tos, 1915
Leptomantella lactea Saussure, 1870
Leptomantella montana Beier, 1942
Leptomantella nigrocoxata Mukherjee, 1995
Leptomantella parva Uvarov, 1933
Leptomantella tonkinae Hebard, 1920
Leptomantella xizangensis Wang, 1993

^ Burmeister (1838) Handb. Ent., Burm. 2: 533.
^ Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty eight new generic names in Orthoptera. Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., (11)5: 173-176.
^ ^a ^b Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 25 January 2021)
^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ Hebard (1920) Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 72: 44.
^ Mantodea Species File: genus Aetaella Hebard, 1920 (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 25 January 2021)