The Leptomantellidae are a new (2019), small family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Leptomantella. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy,Schwarz CJ, Roy R (2019) The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera) Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) International Journal of Entomology 55 (2): 101-196. genera have been moved here from the Caliridinae in the now obsolete family Tarachodidae.
The new placement is in superfamily Nanomantoidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Species in this family have been recorded from Asia, including India and Indochina.Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 11 July 2020)
Genera The Mantodea Species File lists: Aetaella Hebard, 1920 Hebardia - monotypic H. pellucida Werner, 1921 Hebardiella Werner, 1924 Leptomantella Uvarov, 1940
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