Overview of genera (19)

Austrophasma – Hemilobophasma – Karoophasma – Kuboesphasma – Lobatophasma – Mantophasma – Minutophasma – Namaquaphasma – Pachyphasma – Praedatophasma – Sclerophasma – Striatophasma – Tanzaniophasma – Tyrannophasma – Viridiphasma – †Adicophasma – †Ensiferophasma – †Juramantophasma – †Raptophasma

Synonyms

• Raptophasmatinae Zompro, 2005 [syn.: Arillo & Engel, 2006]
• Ensiferophasmatidae Zompro, 2005 [syn.: Arillo & Engel, 2006]

Primary references

• Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. & Adis, J. 2002. Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics. Science 296: 1456–1459. DOI: 10.1126/science.1069397. Reference page. 
• Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D., Damgaard, J., Noort, S., van & Tojo, K. 2003. The taxonomy, genitalic morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1): 3–67. PDF. Reference page. 
• Zompro, O. 2005. Inter- and intra-ordinal relationships of the Mantophasmatodea, with comments on the phylogeny of polyneopteran orders (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89: 85–116. ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Arillo, A. & Engel, M.S. 2006. Rock crawlers in Baltic amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea). American Museum Novitates 3539: 1–10. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3539[1:RCIBAN]2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/5817 . BHL. Reference page. 
• Damgaard, J., Klass, K.-D., Picker, M.D. & Buder, G. 2008. Phylogeny of the heelwalkers (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) based on mtDNA sequences, with evidence for additional taxa in South Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 443–462. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.026 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Eberhard, M.J.B., Picker, M.D. & Klass, K.-D. 2011. Sympatry in Mantophasmatodea, with the description of a new species and phylogenetic considerations. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11(1): 43–59. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0037-8 . Reference page. 
• Huang, D.-y., Nel, A., Zompro, O. & Waller, A. 2008. Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften 95: 947–952. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0412-x . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Wipfler, B., Theska, T. & Predel, R. 2018. Mantophasmatodea from the Richtersveld in South Africa with description of two new genera and species. ZooKeys 746: 137–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.746.14885. Reference page. 
• Zompro, O. & Adis, J. 2006. Notes on Namibian Mantophasma Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Adis, 2002, with descriptions of three new species (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae: Mantophasmatini). Russian Entomological Journal 15(1): 21–24. PDF. Reference page.