ARTICULATA 2011 26 (1): 1–42 FAUNISTIK Mantodea from Turkey and Cyprus
ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Articulata - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopterologie e.V. DGfO Jahr/Year: 2011 Band/Volume: 26_2011 Autor(en)/Author(s): Ehrmann Reinhard Artikel/Article: Mantodea from Turkey and Cyprus. Articulata 1-42 ARTICULATA 2011 26 (1): 142 FAUNISTIK Mantodea from Turkey and Cyprus (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) 1 Reinhard Ehrmann Abstract The Mantodea from Turkey and Cyprus are listed with the genera and species alphabetically and amended with the most important synonyms. 263 publications with locality data: Anatolia, Asia Minor, Turkey, and Cyprus were inspected, evaluated and if applicable supplemented with comments (EHRMANN & SCHÜTTE 2005). The data for outdoor and laboratory observations are added to the biology of some species of the genus Eremiaphila and Rivetina. The order Mantodea is divided into 15 families, of which 5 families are found in Turkey and Cyprus (Amorphoscelidae, Eremiaphilidae, Tarachodidae, Mantidae, Empusidae; system by EHRMANN & ROY 2002: 374-378). Worldwide 452 genera and 2.450 species have been described, of which 13 genera and 23 species are known from Turkey and Cyprus: Ameles BURMEISTER, 1838 (3 species), Amor- phoscelis STÅL, 1871 (1 species), Armene STÅL, 1877 (1 species), Blepharopsis REHN, 1902 (1 species), Bolivaria STÅL, 1877 (1 species), Empusa ILLIGER, 1798 (4 species), Eremiaphila LEFÈBVRE, 1835 (2 species), Geomantis PANTEL, 1896 (1 species), Hierodula BURMEISTER, 1838 (1 species), Iris SAUSSURE, 1869 (2 species), Mantis LINNÉ, 1758 (1 species), Rivetina BERLAND & CHOPARD, 1922 (4 species) and Sphodromantis STÅL, 1871 (1 species). Uncertain for Turkey are: Empusa pennata (THUNBERG, 1815), Empusa uvarovi CHOPARD, 1921, Eremiaphila persica persica WERNER, 1905, Eremiaphila turcica WESTWOOD, 1889 and Rivetina baetica (RAMBUR, 1839).
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