Chaeteessidae
Sign in to saveChaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises. It contains a single extant genus, Chaeteessa, native to South America which is thought to be the most primitive and earliest diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from the Paleogene of Eurasia and North America.
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It is catalogued under topics including Extant Paleocene first appearances, Mantises and Mantis families.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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Chaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises. It contains a single extant genus, Chaeteessa, native to South America which is thought to be the most primitive and earliest diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from the Paleogene of Eurasia and North America.
== Fossil genera == †Arvernineura Piton 1940 Menat Formation, France, Paleocene (Selandian) †Louispitonia Schubnel and Nel 2019 (=Archaeophlebia Piton 1940) Menat Formation, France, Paleocene (Selandian) †Lithophotina Cockerell 1908 Florissant Formation, Colorado, United States, Eocene †Megaphotina Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya, Primorsky, Russia, Eocene
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