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Chaeteessidae

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Chaeteessidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Chaeteessa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Chaeteessidae
Handlirsch 1926
Genera

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Chaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises.[1] 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

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Indeterminate species are also known from French Oise amber, dating to the Eocene (Ypresian)[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "family Chaeteessidae: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  2. ^ Schubnel, Thomas; Nel, André (2019). "New Paleogene mantises from the Oise amber and their evolutionary importance". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64. doi:10.4202/app.00628.2019. ISSN 0567-7920.