Mantophasmatodea
- Tanzaniophasma subsolana
- Mantophasmatidae
- Mantophasma zephyra
- Sclerophasma paresisensis
- Austrophasmatidae
- Raptophasma kerneggeri
(Eocene Baltic amber) - Praedatophasma maraisi
- Tyrannophasma gladiator
- Adicophasma spinosa

References
Adis, J., O. Zompro, E. Moombolah-Goagoses, and E. Marais. 2002. Gladiators: A new order of insect. Scientific American 287:60-65.
Arillo, A., V. M. Ortuño, and A. Nel. 1997. Description of an enigmatic insect from Baltic amber. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 102(1):11-14.
Baum, E., C. Dressler, and R. G. Beutel. 2007. Head structures of Karoophasma sp (Hexapoda, Mantophasmatodea) with phylogenetic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45(2):104-119.
Cameron, S. L., S. C. Barker, and M. F. Whiting. 2006. Mitochondrial genomics and the new insect order Mantophasmatodea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38(1):274-279.
Engel M.S. and D.A. Grimaldi. 2004. A new rock crawler in Baltic amber, with comments on the order (Mantophasmatodea : Mantophasmatidae). American Museum Novitates 3431: 1-11.
Klass, K.-D. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order? Response. Science 297(5582):U1-U1.
Klass, K.-D., O. Zompro, N. P. Kristensen, et al. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order with extant members in the afrotropics. Science 296(5572):1456-1459.
Klass, K.-D., M.D. Picker, J. Damgaard, J., S. Van Noort, and K. Tojo, 2003. The Taxonomy, Genitalic Morphology and Phylogenetic Relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61: 3-67.
Picker, M. D., J. F. Colville, and S. Van Noort. 2002. Mantophasmatodea now in South Africa. Science 297(5586):1475-1475.
Terry, M. D. and M. F. Whiting. 2005. Mantophasmatodea and phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects. Cladistics 21(3): 240-257.
Tilgner, E. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order? Science 297(5582):U1-U1.
Zompro, O. 2001. The Phasmatodea and Raptophasma n. gen., Orthoptera incertae sedis, in Baltic amber (Insecta: Orthoptera). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institutes der Universität Hamburg 85:229-261.
Zompro, O., J. Adis, and W. Weitschat. 2002. A review of the order Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241(3):269-279.
Information on the Internet
- Mantophasmatodea - A new Order of Insects. Oliver Zompro & Joachim Adis.
- New Insect Order Found in Southern Africa. National Geographic Today.
- Order: Mantophasmatodea(mantos). South African Museum Biodiversity Explorer.
- Max-Planck Doctoral Student discovers "living fossils". Max Planck Society Research News Release.
- New Insect Order Discovered for First Time Since 1915. Conservation International Press Release.
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