Historical Contributions to Mantodea Systematics

Fabricius

Johann Christian Fabricius, 1745-1808

Selected Works:
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Westwood

John Obadiah Westwood, 1805-1893 (Great Britain)

Appointment: Professor and Curator, Oxford University

Selected Works:

  • Westwood, J.O. 1832. Supplement on the Orthoptera - Mantodea. In: Griffith, E. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier. Whittaker, London. pp. 178-193. View at Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • Westwood, J.O. 1889. Revisio Insectorum Familiae Mantidarum, speciebus novis aut minus cognitis descriptis et delineatis. Gurney and Jackson, London.
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Burmeister

Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister, 1807-1892 (Germany)

Appointment: Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Selected Works:

  • Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Fangschrechen, Mantodea. vol. 2(5-8), pp. 517-552. Berlin.
  • Burmeister, H. 1864. Notiz über die Mantis-Arten bei Buenos-Aires, Argentinien. Berlin Entomologische Zeitschrift 8, 234-238.
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Saussure

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, 1829-1905 (Switzerland)

Appointment: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève

Selected Works:

  • Saussure, H. 1869. Essai d’un Système des Mantides. Mittheilungen der Schweizer Entomologischen Gesellschaft 3(2), 49–73.
  • Saussure, H. 1870. Additions au Système des Mantides. Mittheilungen der Schweizer Entomologischen Gesellschaft 3(5), 221–244.
  • Saussure, H. 1871a. Mélanges Orthoptérologiques- IV Mantides. Mém. Soc. Physique 21(2), 1-214.
  • Saussure, H. 1871b. Mélanges Orthoptérologiques- Mantides. Mém. Soc. Genève, Suppl. 21(2), 239-337.
  • Saussure, H. 1871c. Mélanges Orthoptérologiques- Mantides et Blattides. Mém. Soc. Genève, 23(2), 1-90, 155-162.
  • Saussure, H. 1872. Recherches Zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amerique Centrale et du Mexique. Études sur les Myriapodes et les insectes, famille des Mantides. Mission Mexico 6(4), 202-295.
  • Saussure, H. 1892. Orthoptera Centrali-Americana - Famille des Mantides. Soc. Entomol. 7(16), 121-124.
  • Saussure, H. & Zehntner, L. 1894. Biologia Centrali - Americana. Insecta- Orthoptera- Mantidae. Soc. Entomol. 1, 123-197. View Online
  • Saussure, H. & Zehntner, L. 1895. Histoire Naturelle des Orthopteres (Blattides et Mantides). In: Grandidier, A. Histoire-Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar. Histoire Naturelle 23, 147-244.
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Stal

Carl Stål, 1833-1878 (Sweden)

Appointment: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Selected Works:

  • Stål, C. 1860. Orthoptera species novas descripsit. Extract - Mantodea. Königl. Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa. Ins. 5(1), 299-350.
  • Stål, C. 1873. Recherches sur le système des Mantides. Bih. Svenska Vet. Akad. 1(10), 1-26.
  • Stål, C. 1876. Diagnoses d'Orthoptères nouveaux. Bih. Svenska Vet. Akad. 3(14), 1-43.
  • Stål, C. 1877a. Sistema Mantodeorum; Essai d`une systematisation nouvelle des Mantodées. Bihang Hill K. Svenska Vet. Akad 4(10), 1–91.
  • Stål, C. 1877b. Orthoptera nova ex Insulis Philippinis descripsit. Öfvers. K. Vet. Acad. Förhandl. 34(10), 33-58.
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Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder, 1837-1911 (USA)

Appointment: Boston Society of Natural History

Selected Works:

  • Scudder, S. H. 1868a. Catalogue of the Orthoptera of North America. - Mantodea. Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., 8(189/2): I-XX, 1-89.
  • Scudder, S. H. 1900. Catalogue of the described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sc., 8: 1-101.
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Kirby

William Forsell Kirby, 1844-1912 (Great Britain)

Appointment: British Museum of Natural History

Selected Works:

  • Kirby, W.F. 1899. On a collection of Mantidae from the Transvaal etc. formed by Mr. W.L. Distant. Annals and magazine of natural history 4, 344-353.
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera (Forficilidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae). vol. 1. British Museum, Natural History, London. View at Biodiversity Heritage Library
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James Wood-Mason, 1846-1893 (Great Britain)

Appointment: Indian Museum, Calcutta

Selected Works:

  • Wood-Mason, J. 1884. Revised synopsis of the species of Choeradodis, a remarkable genus of Mantodea, common to India and Tropical America. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 53, 238-244.
  • Wood-Mason, J. 1889a. Monograph of Phyllothelys, a genus of Mantids peculiar to the Oriental Region. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 365-368.
  • Wood-Mason, J. 1889b. The Ethiopian and Oriental representatives of the Subfamily Vatinae. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 58(3), 306-326.
  • Wood-Mason, J. 1889c. A Cataloque of the Mantodea, with descriptions of new genera and species, and an enumeration of the specimens, in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Mus. Calcutta 1, 1-48.
  • Wood-Mason, J. 1891. A Cataloque of the Mantodea, with descriptions of new genera and species, and an enumeration of the specimens, in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Mus. Calcutta 2, 49-66.
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Bolivar

Ignacio Bolivar, 1850-1944 (Spain)

Appointment: Museo de Ceincias Naturale

Selected Works:

  • Bolivar, I. 1889. Orthopteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa-Mantodea. Sci. Acad. Lisboa 1(2), 73-90.
  • Bolivar, I. 1898. Nueva especie de Mántido Europeo. Ann. Soc. Hist. Esp., Actas 7(2/21), 145-160.
  • Bolivar, I. 1908a. Mantidos de la Guinea Española. Mem. Ac. esp. Hist. Nat. 1, 457-473.
  • Bolivar, I. 1908b. Über die gattung Amorphoscelis Stal, Mantodea. Dt. Ent. Zeitschrift 2, 513-517.
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Giglio-Tos

Ermanno Giglio-Tos, 1865-1926 (Italy)

Appointment: Professor, Università degli Studi di Torino

Selected Works:

  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1907a. Ortotteri Africani, Part II. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Turino 22(563), 1-26.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1907b. Ortotteri di Madagascar. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Turino 22(569), 1-8.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1907c. Ortotteri dell Uganda e del Ruwenzori. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Turino 22(1), 295-300.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1911a. Mantidi esotici. I. - Miomantis (Calidomantis). Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Firenze 41, 151-200.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1911b. Mantidi esotici. II. - Polyspilota, III. - Tarachodes, IV. - Galepsus. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Firenze 42, 3-38, 94-130, 142-169.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1912. Mantidi esotici. V. - Mantis-Tenodera-Hierodula-Rhombodera. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Firenze 43, 3-167.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1913. Mantodea, Subfamilie: Perlamantinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 144 Fascicule.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1914a. Mantidi esotici. VI.- Perlamantinae. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Firenze 45, 3-60.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1914b. Mantidi esotici. VII.- Vatinae. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 29, 1-87.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1915. Mantidi esotici. VIII.- Acromantinae. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 30, 1-16.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1919. Saggio di una classificazione dei Mantidi. Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 49, 50–87.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1921. Mantodea, Subfamilie: Eremiaphilinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 177 Fascicule.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. 1927. Mantidae. In: Das Tierreich. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin.
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sjostedt

Yngve Sjöstedt, 1866-1948 (Sweden)

Appointment: Uppsala University and Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm

Selected Works:

  • Sjöstedt. Y. 1930. Orthopterentypen im Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. I. Mantidae. Arkiv För Zoologi 21(32), 1-43.
  • Sjöstedt. Y. 1909. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro Meru-Expedition, Mantodea. 17: 3, p. 1-73
  • Sjöstedt. Y. 1918. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg´s Swedish Scientific-Expedition to Australia 1910-1913, Mantidae und phasmidae. Arkiv För Zoologi 11(19), 3-37.
  • Sjöstedt. Y. 1924. Zoological results of the Swedish Expedition to central-Africa 1921, Insecta, Mantodea und Phasmodea. Arkiv För Zoologi 16(6), 1-13.
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Werner

Franz Werner, 1867-1939 (Austria)

Appointment: Professor, Vienna Institute of Zoology

Selected Works:

  • Werner, F. 1905. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Ägypten und dem ägyptischen Sudan. I.- Die Orthopterenfauna Ägyptens mit besonderer Berücksichtgung der Eremiaphila. SD. Ak. Wiss. Wien 114, 357-436.
  • Werner, F. 1908. Die Mantodean Abessyniens. Nach dem Material des St. Petersburger akademischen Museums. Ann. Mus. Zool. Napoli 13, 108-128.
  • Werner, F. 1915. Über einige neue und seltenere afrikanische Mantodeen des Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brüssel. Arch. für Naturgeschichte 81(5), 79-87.
  • Werner, F. 1916. Zur Kenntnis afrikanischer und indischer Mantodeen. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 66, 254-296.
  • Werner, F. 1922. Philippine mantids, or praying insects. Philipp. Journ. Sci. Manila 21, 147-159.
  • Werner, F. 1923a. Mantodea und Phasmodea. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas. Michaelsen 2, 105-132.
  • Werner, F. 1932. Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Marokko, unternommen 1930 mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften. SB. Ak. Wiss. Wien 141, 111-174.
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Apolinar

Hermano Apolinar María (left), 1867-1949 (Colombia)

Appointment: Instituto de la Salle, Bogotá

Selected Works:

  • Apolinar, M.H. 1924. Especies nuevas y observaciones sobre Dermópteros y Orthópteros colombianos. Boletin Sociedad Colombiana de Ciencias Naturales 75, 45-50.
  • Apolinar, M.H. 1937. Especies nuevas y observaciones diversas sobre Dermapteros y Ortopteros colombianos. Familia de los Mantidos. Rev. Ac. Col. Cienc. Ex. Fis. y Nat. 1(3), 226-227.
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Shelford

Robert Walter Campbell Shelford, 1872-1912 (Great Britain)

Appointment: Curator of the Sarawak Museum, Borneo

Selected Works:

  • Shelford, R. 1902. Observations on some mimetic insects and spiders from Borneo and Singapore. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2, 230-284.
  • Shelford, R. 1903. Bionomical notes on some Bornean Mantidae. Zoologist 7, 293-304.
  • Shelford, R. 1909. Two remarkable forms of mantid oothecae. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 4, 509-514.
  • Shelford, R. 1913. Orthoptères. Blattides, Mantides et Phasmides. Arc de méridien equatorial 10(1), 57-62.
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Rehn

James Abram Garfield Rehn, 1881-1965 (USA)

Appointment: The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

Selected Works:

  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Studies in old world Mantidae (Orthoptera). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 55, 701-718.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. and M. Hebard. 1908. An Orthopterological reconnaissance of the Southwestern United States. Part I. Arizona. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 60, 365-402; Part II 1909a, New Mexico and Western Texas Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 61, 111-175; Part III 1909b, California and Nevada Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 61, 409-483.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1911. Mantodea, Subfamilie: Vatinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 119 Fascicule.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. and M. Hebard. 1912, 1914. I & II. On the Orthoptera found on the Florida Keys and in extreme Southern Florida. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 64, 235-245; 66, 373-376.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1927. Contributions to our knowledge of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of the Transvaal and Natal (Part 2. Mantidae). Ann. Transvaal Mus. Pretoria 12(1), 1-54.
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Chopard

Lucien Chopard, 1885-1971 (France)

Appointment: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Selected Works:

  • Chopard, L. 1911. Contribution a la faune des Orthoptéres de la Guyane Francaise (Mantidae et Phasmidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 80, 809-816.
  • Chopard, L. 1949. Étude des Mantides Américains de la collection I. Bolivar (Orthoptéres). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 85, 161-187.
  • Chopard, L. 1949. Ordre des Dictyoptères - Sous-ordre des Mantodea. - Pp.386-407 in: Grassé (ed.): Traité de Zoologie - Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. 1. edn. Paris: Masson. 799 pp.
  • Chopard, L. 1943. Fauna de L'Empire Français. I.-Orthoptéroides de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose 450, 1-658.
  • Chopard, L. 1950. Contribution a l'étude de l'Aïr. Orthoptera - Mantodea. Mém. IFAN 10, 127-146.
  • Chopard, L. 1958. Les Orthoptéroides des Comores. Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Série E. 10, 3-40.
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Heberd

Morgan Hebard, 1887-1946 (USA)

Appointment: The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

Selected Works:

  • Hebard, M. 1919. Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. 1. -Dermaptera and Orthopterous families Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phil. 45, 89-179.
  • Hebard, M. 1920. Studies in Malayan, Papuan and Australian Mantidae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 71, 14-82.
  • Hebard, M. 1921. Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. 2. -Dermaptera and Orthopterous families Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phil. 47(2), 107-169.
  • Hebard, M. 1923. Studies in the Mantidae and Phasmidae of Panama (Orthoptera). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phil. 48, 327-362.
  • Hebard, M. 1924. Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Ecuador. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 76, 109-248.
  • Hebard, M. 1931. Studies in lower California Orthoptera - Mantodea. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phil. 57, 113-127.
  • Hebard, M. 1943. The Dermaptera and Orthopterous families Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae of Texas. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phil. 68, 239-311.
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Uvarov

Sir Boris Petrovitch Uvarov, 1888-1970 (Russia / Great Britain)

Appointment: IIE (now CABI), The Natural History Museum

Selected Works:

  • Uvarov, B.P. 1921. Eremiaphila fraseri n. sp., a new mantid from Mesopotamia. Ent. Mag. 57, 175-176.
  • Uvarov, B.P. 1927. A new mantid from Burma (Paratoxodera meggitti). Ann.Mag.Nat. Hist. 19(9), 658-659
  • Uvarov, B.P. 1930. Notes on Paleartic Mantidae (Orthoptera). Ann. Mag. Mat. Hist. 5(10), 631-653.
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Piza

Salvador De Toledo Piza, 1898-1988 (Brasil)

Appointment: Escuela Agricola de Piracicaba

Selected Works:

  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1960. Um novo Mantideo da Argentina. Revista de Agricultura Piracicaba 35(3), 198.
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1983. Uma Thespinea nova do Esyado de Pernambuco (Mantodea:Mantidae). Revista de Agricultura Piracicaba 58 (4): 247-248.
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1970. Novo Genero de Thespinae (Mantidae). Revista de Agricultura Piracicaba 55(1), 1-2
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1968. Novos Mantídeos Do Brasil. Revista de Agricultura Piracicaba 48, 117-120.
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1968. Um novo Genero de Mantida Brasileiro da Subfamilia Thespinae com duas especies novas. Revista de Agricultura Piracicaba 43(1), 1-2.
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1982. Um Phyllovates (Vatinae) e uma Liturgusa (Liturgusinae) novos de Brasil (Mantodea-Mantidae). Ibidem 57(3), 93-94.
  • De Toledo Piza, S. 1983. Mais uma Vates (Mantodea-Vatinae) do Brasil. Ibidem 58(1-2), 1-2.
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Beier

Max Walter Peter Beier, 1903-1979 (Austria)

Appointment: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Selected Works:

  • Beier, M. 1934a. Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Hymenopodinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 196 Fascicule.
  • Beier, M. 1934b. Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Sibyllinae und Empusinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 197 Fascicule.
  • Beier, M. 1934c. Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Toxoderinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 198 Fascicule.
  • Beier, M. 1935a. Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Thespinae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 200 Fascicule.
  • Beier, M. 1935b. Mantodea, Fam. Mantidae, Subfam. Orthoderinae, Choeradodinae, Deroplatynae. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman 201 Fascicule.
  • Beier, M. 1964. Blattopteroidea, Mantodea. In Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Fünfter Band: Arthropoda. III. Abteilung: Insecta, 6 Buch, 849-970. Leipzig: Geest & Portig.
  • Beier, M. 1968. Mantodea (Fangheuschrecken). Pp. 147 in: J.G. Helmcke, D. Starck & H. Wermuth (eds.), Handbuch der Zoologie, IV. Band Arthropoda, 2. Hälfte Insecta, Lieferung 12.  De Gruyter, Berlin.
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Renaud Paulian

Renaud Paulian, 1913-2003 (France)

Selected Works:

  • Paulian, R. 1957. Faune de Madagascar. V.- Insectes Mantodea. Publ. Inst. Rech. Sci. Tananarive 5, 1-102.
  • Paulian, R. 1958. Mantides malgaches nouveaux ou méconnus. Natural. Malgache 10(1-2), 31-36.
  • Paulian, R. 1961a. Trois nouveaux Mantides de Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Ent. France 66, 162-164.
  • Paulian, R. 1961b. Fauna Madagascar.-XIII.- La zoogeographie de Madagascar et des iles voisines. Inst. Rech. Sci. 1-485.
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Alfred Kaltenbach

Alfred P. Kaltenbach, 1920-2005 (Austria)

Appointment: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Selected Works:

  • Kaltenbach, A.P. 1963. Kritische Untersuchungen zur Systematik, Biologie und Verbreitung der europäischen Fangheuschrecken (Dictyoptera-Mantidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher Systematik 90, 521-598.
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. 1982. Insects of Saudi Arabia. Mantodea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 4, 29-72.
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. 1996. Unterlagen für eine Monographie der Mantodea des südlichen Afrika: 1- Artenbestand, geographische Verbreitung und Ausbreitungsgrenzen (Insecta: Mantodea). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 98(B), 193-346.
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. 1998. Unterlagen für eine Monographie der Mantodea des südlichen Afrika: 2- Bestimmungstabellen für die hoheren Taxa, Nachtrage zum Artenbestand. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 100(B), 19-59.
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