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The Eocene Protohierodula crabbi Ross, 2019 cannot be reliably assigned to Manteidae (Insecta: Mantodea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2019

Thomas SCHUBNEL  and
André NEL
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Abstract

The late Eocene mantis genus and species Protohierodula crabbi can be attributed to the extant clade Artimantodea incertae sedis sit. nov., but its original placement in the Manteidae is not supported. It remains the oldest reliable described Artimantodea.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 110 , Issue 3-4: The Fauna and Flora of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, UK, Volume 2 , September 2019 , pp. 313 - 314
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Copyright © The Royal Society of Edinburgh 2019 

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