Iridopterygidae
# Iridopterygidae

Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae, have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent (2019) major revision of mantid taxonomy.

## Former subfamilies

* Hapalomantinae: moved to new family Nanomantidae
* Iridopteryginae: now consists of two tribes in the Gonypetidae
* Nanomantinae: now in new family Nanomantidae contained:
   * Tribe Fulcinini
   * Tribe Nanomantini
* Nilomantinae: now a tribe of Hapalomantinae
* Tropidomantinae: previously containing a single tribe, the Tropidomantini
* genera previously placed incertae sedis here are now the Tropidomantinae.
