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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2019

Andrew J. ROSS
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Abstract

I accept Schubnel & Nel's (2019) opinion that Protohierodula belongs to the clade Artimantodea, that it cannot be reliably assigned to the family Manteidae and should be regarded as family incertae sedis.

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ArtimantodeaInsect LimestoneIsle of WightMantoideapraying mantisPriabonian
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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. 315 - 316
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