Database Details : Mantodea Species File
| Database Qualifiers | |
|---|---|
| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 90% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | Mantodea Species File UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | MantodeaSF |
| Version: | 5.0/5.0, Dec 2016 |
| Release date: | 2016-11-29 |
| Authors/editors: | Otte D., Spearman L. & Stiewe M.B.D. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Mantodea |
| English name of the group: | Praying mantids |
| Number of living species | 2,483 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 169 |
| Number of extinct species: | 26 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 368 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 3,046 |
| Abstract: | The Mantodea Species File (MSF) is a taxonomic database of the world's praying mantids (Order Mantodea), both of fossil and living species. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for over 2,400 valid species and provides many images of specimens deposited in museums worldwide, as well as pictures of living praying mantids in the wild and in captivity. |
| Organization: | Mantodea Species File |
| Website: |
http://mantodea.speciesfile.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Otte D., Spearman L. & Stiewe M.B.D. (2017). MantodeaSF: Mantodea Species File (version 5.0/5.0, Dec 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |