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Empusidae

Caesar, Maram, Roy, Roger, Legendre, Frederic, Grandcolas, Philippe & Pellens, Roseli, 2015, Catalogue of Dictyoptera from Syria and neighbouring countries (Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan), Zootaxa 3948 (1), pp. 71-92 : 80-81

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 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.5

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scientific name

 Empusidae
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Family: Empusidae View in CoL

Blepharopsis mendica ( Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL Mantis mendica Fabricius, 1775: 275 .

Empusa mendica: Blanchard, 1840: 10 .

Blepharis mendica: Saussure, 1871a: 181 ; Westwood, 1889: 26; Bolívar, 1893: 8; Kirby, 1894: 138. Blepharopsis mendica: Kirby, 1904: 315 View in CoL ; Çiplak & Demirsoy, 1997: 105; Ehrmann, 2002: 79; 2011: 7; Battiston et al., 2010: 87.

Blepharis monstrosa: Krauss, 1909: 112 .

Blepharopsis mendica mendica Giglio-Tos, 1927: 645 View in CoL ; Otte & Spearman, 2005: 43. Geographical records: Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Syria.

General distribution: from Morocco to Syria.

Type series: 2males, 3females, 1female juv. ZMHB. Type locality: Egypt: Alexandria.

Empusa fasciata Brullé, 1832 View in CoL

Empusa fasciata Brullé, 1832: 83 View in CoL ; Bolívar, 1893: 7; Giglio-Tos, 1927: 637; Çiplak & Demirsoy, 1997: 106; Ehrmann, 2002: 126; 2011: 10; Eid et al., 2009: 23; Otte & Spearman, 2005: 46; Battiston et al., 2010: 96. Geographical records: Turkey, Jordan, Syria.

General distribution: from Greece and Algeria to India.

Type series: lost.

Empusa longicollis Ramme, 1951 View in CoL

Empusa longicollis Ramme, 1951: 134 View in CoL –135; Roy, 2004: 9; Battiston et al., 2010: 98. Geographical records: Turkey.

General distribution: Turkey.

Type series: Holotype female ZMHB, Allotype male ZMHB. Type locality: Turkey: Anatolia.

Empusa pennicornis pennicornis ( Pallas, 1773) View in CoL

Mantis pennicornis Pallas, 1773: 728 ; Linnaeus, in Gmelin, 1790: 2055; Olivier, 1792: 635, Otte & Spearman, 2005: 50.

Empusa pennicornis Giglio-Tos, 1927: 639 View in CoL ; Çiplak & Demirsoy, 1997: 107. Empusa orientalis Burmeister, 1838: 546 –547.

Empusa attenuata Ramme, 1951: 135 –136.

Empusa pennicornis pennicornis Ehrmann, 2002: 128 View in CoL ; 2011: 12; Battiston et al., 2010: 99. Geographical records: Syria, Turkey.

General distribution: from Ukraine to China.

Type series: Syntype male ZMHB, (Synonym: (E.a.) Syntype male, female ZMHB, Paratype 4 males - 2 females ZMHB). Type locality: Syria: Caspium, (Paratype: Anatolia: Gebirge bei Malatia=Messina, Type: Aserbadsha=Bregli).

Empusa uvarovi Chopard, 1921 View in CoL

Empusa uvarovi Chopard, 1921: 52 View in CoL –53; Ehrmann, 2002: 130; Otte & Spearman, 2005: 52; Battiston et al., 2010: 100.

Geographical records: Iraq.

General distribution: Iraq, India.

Type series: Syntype male, female NHM. Type locality: Iraq: Mesopotamia Amara, Alhagi.

Battiston, R., Picciau, L., Fontana, P. & Marshall, J. (2010) Mantids of the Euro-Mediterranean Area. WBA Handbooks 2. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, 240 pp.

Blanchard, M. E. (1840) Histoire naturelle des Insectes Orthoptera. Orthopteres, 3, 1 - 44. [P. Dumenil, Paris]

Bolivar, I. (1893) Liste des Orthopteres recueillis en Syrie par le Dr Theod. Barrois, par le professeur I. Bolivar de Madrid. Revue biologique du nord de la France, 1893, 3 - 16.

Brulle, A. (1832) Expedition Sci. de Moree. Zoologie - Orthoptera - Mantodea. Levrault, Paris, 400 pp.

Burmeister, H. C. (1838) Handbuch der Entomologie. Fangschrecken. Handbuch der Entomologie, 2, 469 - 552.

Chopard, L. (1921) Report on the Orthoptera of Mesopotamia and Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 27, 759 - 771.

Ciplak, B. & Demirsoy, A. (1997) Mantodea (Insecta) Fauna of Malatya vicinity (Turkey) and some remarks on the Mantises of Anatolia. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 105 - 111. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3503542

Ehrmann, R. (2002) Mantodea. Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier-Verlag Gmbh (NTV Wissenschaft), Munster, 519 pp.

Eid, E., Katbeh-Bader, A., Al-Otoom, M. & Othman, Y. (2009) Contribution to the Entomofauna of Dibeen Forest Reserve in Jordan. Centre for Entomological studies Ankara, 49, 19 - 41.

Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae sistens Insectorum. Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae, 12 pp. [pp. 268 - 279]

Giglio-Tos, E. (1927) Das Tierreich 50. Orthoptera Mantidae. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin & Leipzig, XL + 707 pp.

Kirby, W. F. (1894) The Zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 5 (2), 53 - 142.

Kirby, W. F. (1904) A synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. I. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. British Museum, Natural History, London, x + 501 pp.

Krauss, H. A. (1909) Zoologische Ergebnisse zweier in den Jahren 1902 und 1904 durch die Sinai-halbinsel Botanischen Studiereisen. In: Kneucher, A. (Ed.), Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Karlsruhe, 21, pp. 99 - 199.

Olivier, A. G. (1792) Histoire Naturelle. Insectes (Mantodea). Encyclopedie Methodique, Dictionnaire des Insectes. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 616 - 642.

Otte, D. & Spearman, L. (2005) Mantida Species File. Catalogue of the Mantids of the world, Publication Number 1, 1 - 489. [Insect Diversity Association]

Pallas, P. S. (1773) Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reiches in den Jahren 1768 - 1774. Akademie Buchhandlung, 2, 728.

Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Sud - Ost - Europa und Vorder Asien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1 - 431.

Roy, R. (2004) Rearrangements critiques dans la famille des Empusidae et relations phylogenetiques [Dictyoptera, Mantodea]. Revue francaise d'Entomologie, New Series, 2004, 26 (1), 1 - 18.

Saussure, H. de (1871 a) Melanges Orthopterologiques. III me Fascicule. IV. Mantides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, 21 (2), 1 - 214.

Westwood, J. O. (1889) Revisio Insectorum Familiae Mantidarum, speciebus novis aut minus cognitis descriptis et delineatis. Gurney and Jackson, London, 54 + III p., 14 pl.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mantodea

Family

Empusidae

Specimens