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.