Full name:

Mantodea Species File Online

Short name:

MSF

Version:

1.0/3.4, Oct 2008

Release date:

October 16th, 2008

Authors/editors:

D Otte & M Stiewe

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Mantodea

Number of species names:

2,373 accepted names; 482 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

168 accepted names; 51 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

3,074

Abstract:

The Mantodea Species File (MSF) is a taxonomic database of the world's praying mantids (Order Mantodea), both of fossil and living species. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for over 2,400 valid species and provides many images of specimens deposited in museums worldwide, as well as pictures of living praying mantids in the wild and in captivity.

Organization:

Mantodea Species File Online

Web site:

http://mantodea.speciesfile.org