A Revision of Cretaceous Mantises and Their Relationships, Including New Taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea)

By D. Grimaldi. 2003

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Abstract All genera of Cretaceous mantises are reviewed, and diagnoses of some are revised based on re-examination of type specimens. Five new Mantodea are described from Cretaceous deposits on four continents, including: concretions in limestone from the Santana Formation of northeast Brazil (Aptian, 120 Ma), inclusions in amber from the Raritan Formation of New Jersey, USA (Turonian, 90 Ma), and in amber from undetermined formations of Lebanon (Barremian, 125 Ma) and northern Myanmar (Burma) (approximately early Cenomanian to late Albian, 100 Ma). Prior to this, virtually all of the oldest mantises were from five Cretaceous localities in Eurasia. New Mantodea are Santanmantis axelrodi, n. gen., n. sp. (Brazil); Ambermantis wozniaki, n. gen., n. sp. (New Jersey); Jersimantis burmiticus, n. sp. (Myanmar); and Burmantis asiatica and B. lebanensis, n. gen. and n. spp. (Myanmar and Lebanon, respectively). The first two are based on adults, the last three on nymphs. Cladistic analysis of 26 morphological characters and 20 taxa, including living families and well-preserved fossils, indicates that Cretaceous mantises are phylogenetically basal to all living species and do not belong to the most basal living families Chaeteessidae, Mantoididae, and Metallyticidae. The classification of Cretaceous Mantodea is revised, which includes Santanmantidae, n. fam. and Ambermantidae, n. fam. Stratigraphic and cladistic ranks of taxa, with now improved fossil sampling, indicate that the order Mantodea is relatively recent like Isoptera (termites), with an origin no earlier than Late Jurassic. Superfamily Mantoidea, comprising three families and 95% of the Recent species in the order, radiated in the Early Tertiary to produce the exuberance of forms seen today.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• The phylogenetic system of Mantodea (Insecta: Dictyoptera) (2013, unknown): “Another important fossil species is †Santanmantis axelrodi.”
• Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out‐group sampling (2012, methodology): “Forty-seven in-group taxa were included in the study: Mantodea include representatives for the two most likely basal lineages Chaeteessidae and Mantoididae (each containing a single genus; Klass, 1995, 1997; Grimaldi, 2003; Svenson & Whiting, 2004; Klass & Meier, 2006; Yager & Svenson, 2008).”
• Relationships among the major lineages of Dictyoptera: the effect of outgroup selection on dictyopteran tree topology (2008, methodology): “(2006a, b) and secondary structure models based on Guttell et al. (1993). Manual alignment has strong support as the most accurate method available for aligning ribosomal data (Ellis & Morrison, 1995; Kjer, 1995, 2004; Hickson et al.”
• The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) (2019, methodology): “Grimaldi (2003) coined the term Neomantodea for a clade comprising the Cretaceous fossil taxon †Ambermantis Grimaldi, 2003 + extant Mantodea (= Eumantodea).”
• FOSSIL CALIBRATIONS FOR THE ARTHROPOD TREE OF LIFE (2016, background): “However, there has not been a cladistic analysis of wing venation characters for both fossil and extant Blattodea and/or Dictyoptera, thus we agree with the more conservative view (Kjer et al., 2015; Legendre et al., 2015; Prokop et al., 2014) that roachoids likely represent a diverse and speciose f”