Database details
| Full name: | Mantodea Species File Online |
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| Short name: | MSF |
| Version: | 1.0/3.4, Oct 2008 |
| Release date: | 2008-10-16 |
| Authors/editors: | D. Otte & M. Stiewe |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Mantodea |
| English name of the group: | Praying mantids |
| Number of species: | 2,373 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 168 |
| Number of synonyms: | 533 |
| 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 |
| Website: |
http://mantodea.speciesfile.org |