Amphecostephanus
Genus of praying mantises
| Amphecostephanus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Chroicopteridae |
| Subfamily: | Chroicopterinae |
| Genus: | Amphecostephanus Rehn, 1912 |
| Species: | A. rex |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphecostephanus rex Rehn, 1912 | |
Amphecostephanus is a monotypic genus of praying mantises in the family Chroicopteridae. It s represented by a single species, Amphecostephanus rex,[1] that is found in Angola and Malawi.[2][3] It was first described in "On some African Mantidae and Phasmidae in the Collection of the Deutschen Entomologischen Museum" in Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin in 1912.[4]
