Taxonomy Profile: Mantophasmatodea (Zompro Klass Kristensen and Adis 2002)

Mantophasmatodea: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Order
Synonym(s):
Tyrannophasmatini
Zompro 2005
Common Name(s):
gladiators []
African rock crawlers []
gladiator-bugs []
heelwalkers []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Mantophasmatodea: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Protostomia
Superdivision : Ecdysozoa
Phylum : Arthropoda
arthropods |
Artrópode |
arthropodes |
Subphylum : Hexapoda
hexapods |
Class : Insecta
insects |
hexapoda |
inseto |
insectes |
Subclass : Pterygota
winged insects |
insects ailés |
Infraclass : Neoptera
modern, wing-folding insects |
Superorder : Polyneoptera
Order : Mantophasmatodea
gladiators |
African rock crawlers |
gladiator-bugs |
heelwalkers |
Mantophasmatodea Direct Children(s):
Mantophasmatidae
(Zompro Klass Kristensen and Adis 2002)
Raptophasma
(Zompro 2001)
Tanzaniophasmatidae
(Klass Picker Damgaard van Noort and Tojo 2003)
Austrophasmatidae
(Klass Picker Damgaard van Noort and Tojo 2003)
Tyrannophasma
(Zompro 2003)
Praedatophasma
(Zompro and Adis 2002)
Adicophasma
(Engel and Grimaldi 2004)
Juramantophasma
(Huang Nel Zompro and Waller 2008)
Mantophasmatodea: References
Expert(s):
Source(s):
Source:
ITIS & Species 2000 Catalogue of Life Management Hierarchy
Acquired:
2013-08-01
Notes:
M. Ruggiero & D. Gordon, eds. 2013. Consensus Management Hierarchy for the ITIS & Species2000 Catalogue of Life. Contributors: Nicolas Bailly, Thierry Bourgoin, Richard Brusca, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Daphne Fautin, Dennis Gordon, Gerald Guala, Michael Guiry, Paul Kirk, Elliot Lefkowitz, David Mabberly, David Maddison, Alan Paton, Michael Ruggiero, Peter Stevens, and Brian Tyndall
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Adis, Joachim, Oliver Zompro, Esther Moombolah-Goagoses, and Eugène Marais
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2002-11-01 / 2002-11-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Gladiators: A New Order of Insect
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Scientific American, vol. 287, no. 5
Page(s):
60-65
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0036-8733
Notes:
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Zompro, Oliver, Joachim Adis, Philip E. Bragg, Piotr Naskrecki, Kathy Wittneben-Martin, and V. Saxe
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2003-12-01 / 2003-12-01
Article/Chapter Title:
A new genus and species of Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from the Branderg Massif, Namibia, with notes on behaviour
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Cimbebasia, vol. 19
Page(s):
13-24
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1012-4926
Notes:
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Engel, Michael S., and David A. Grimaldi
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2004-02-27 / 2004-02-27
Article/Chapter Title:
A New Rock Crawler in Baltic Amber, with Comments on the Order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae)
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 3431
Page(s):
11
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0082
Notes:
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Klass, Klaus D., M. D. Picker, J. Damgaard, S. van Noort, and K. Tojo
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2003-01-01 / 2003-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
The taxonomy, genitalic morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta)
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Entomologische Abhandlungen, vol. 61, no. 1
Page(s):
3-67
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0373-8981
Notes:
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Damgaard, Jakob, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Mike D. Picker, and Gerda Buder
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2008-05-01 / 2008-05-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Phylogeny of the Heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 47, no. 2
Page(s):
443-462
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1055-7903
Notes:
Reference for:
Mantophasmatodea
Mantophasmatodea: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Mantophasmatodea: Comments
Comment:
According to Klass et al. (2002), "The phylogenetic position of Mantophasmatodea thus remains unclear"