title: Eremiaphilidae
text: # Eremiaphilidae
  
  Eremiaphilidae is a small Old World family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Eremiaphila. As part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy, this family now contains the subfamily Tarachodinae, which includes tribes and genera previously placed in the now obsolete Tarachodidae.
  
  The new placement means that this taxon is characteristic of the superfamily Eremiaphiloidea (of group Cernomantodea) and infraorder Schizomantodea. Genera in this family have been recorded from: Africa and Asia.
  
  ## Subfamilies, tribes and selected genera
  
  The Mantodea Species File lists four subfamilies:
  
  ### Eremiaphilinae
  
  Species in this small, original subfamily are frequently wingless or brachypterous, and commonly encountered in desert environments, from Egypt to temperate Asia. Their coloration often matches that of the sand or rocks in the habitat.
  
  * Eremiaphila Lefebvre, 1835
  * Heteronutarsus Lefebvre, 1835
  
  ### Iridinae
  
  * tribe Didymocoryphini (monotypic)
     * Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877
  * tribe Dysaulini
     * Dysaules Stal, 1877
  * tribe Iridini
     * Iris Saussure, 1869
  * tribe Schizocephalini (monotypic: was subfamily Schizocephalinae)
     * Schizocephala Serville, 1831
  
  **Parathespinae**
  
  * Parathespis Saussure, 1869
  
  ### Tarachodinae
  
  **tribe Oxyelaeini**
  
  * Charieis Burr, 1900
  * Oxyelaea Giglio-Tos, 1917
  
  **tribe Tarachodini**
  
  * subtribe Antistiina
     * Antistia Stal, 1876
     * Ariusia Stal, 1877
  * subtribe Tarachodina
     * Galepsus Stal, 1876
     * Metagalepsus Roy, 1971
     * Nesogalepsus
     * Nothogalepsus
     * Oxyophthalmellus
     * Paragalepsus
     * Paralygdamia
     * Paroxyophthalmus
     * Plastogalepsus
     * Pseudogalepsus
     * Pyrgomantis
     * Tarachodella
     * Tarachodes Burmeister, 1838
     * Tarachodula
     * Tuberculepsus Roy, 2008
  