Chlidonoptera

Chlidonoptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Hymenopodidae
Tribe:	Hymenopodini
Genus:	Chlidonoptera; Karsch, 1892
Species
	Chlidonoptera chopardi; Chlidonoptera lestoni; Chlidonoptera roxanae; Chlidonoptera vexillum; Chlidonoptera werneri;
Synonyms
	Anabomistria Giglio-Tos, 1915; Bomistria Saussure, 1898;

Chlidonoptera is an African genus of praying mantis in the family Hymenopodidae and tribe Hymenopodini.^[1]

References

^ [1] Svenson et al. 2015. Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant-mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with a new suprageneric classification. Systematic Entomology 40(4), 789–834