page_title: List of mantids of Trinidad and Tobago
section_title: Mantids by family
hierarchical_section_title: List of mantids of Trinidad and Tobago / Mantids by family
caption_attribution_description: English: Adult female Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) at Shelby Park in Nashville, Tennessee
context_page_description: The mantids of Trinidad and Tobago are part of the invertebrate fauna of both islands, part of the Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago.
  Beginning with Lawrence Bruner in 1906 describing 8 species on the island of Trinidad, then followed by Beebe, Crane & Hughes-Schrader in 1952 and Kevan in 1953. Both papers in the 1950s increased the number of species identified.
context_section_description: Mantoididae
  Mantoida fulgidipennis Westwood, 1889
  Thespidae
  Thespinae
  Musonia surinama (Saussure, 1869)
  Thespis media (Giglio-Tos, 1916)
  Macromusonia sp. Hebard, 1922 
  Oligonicinae
  Thesprotia filum (Lichtenstein, 1796)
  Miopteryginae
  Bantiella trinitatis Giglio-Tos 1915 
  Acanthopidae
  Acontistinae
  Acontista multicolor (Saussure, 1870)
  Tithrone roseipennis (Saussure, 1877)
  Acanthopinae
  Acanthops parafalcata Lombardo & Ippolito, 2004 
  Mantidae
  Angelinae
  Angela quinquemaculata (Olivier, 1792)
  Stagmomantinae
  Stagmomantis carolina (Johannson, 1763)
  Stagmatopterinae
  Stagmatoptera septentrionalis Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
  Parastagmatoptera unipunctata Burmeister, 1838
  Oxyopsis rubicunda Stoll, 1813
  Vatinae
  Vates lobata (Fabricius, 1798)
  Phyllovates tripunctata (Burmeister, 1838)
  Photinae
  Paraphotina reticulata (Saussure 1871)
  Brunneria subaptera Saussure 1869
  Liturgusidae
  Liturgusinae
  Liturgusa trinidadensis Svenson 2014
caption: Stagmomantis carolina
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