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    Mantis (redirect from Mantodea life cycle)
    Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids")...
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    European mantis (category Mantodea of Africa)
    of the Mantidae ('mantids'), which is the largest family of the order Mantodea (mantises). Their common name praying mantis is derived from the distinctive...
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  • Acanthops bidens (category Mantodea of North America)
    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mantodea Family: Acanthopidae Genus: Acanthops Species: A. bidens Binomial name...
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    Empusa fasciata (category Mantodea of Asia)
    fasciata is a species of praying mantis in the genus Empusa in the order Mantodea. The praying mantis Empusa fasciata has a tapering head with a miter-like...
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    the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically...
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  • List of mantis genera and species (category Mantodea genera)
    species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here. The insect order Mantodea consists of over 2,400...
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    Chaeteessa and Mantoida, Metallyticus is considered a member of the basal Mantodea, though some scientists consider the application of this term to extant...
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  • Diestrammena unicolor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888) Access date: 2014/7/9 Mantodea.SpeciesFile.org subspecies Mantis religiosa beybienkoi Bazyluk, 1960 Accessed...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The praying mantis is any insect of the order Mantodea. Praying mantis may also refer to: Praying Mantis (1983 film), a film directed...
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    Mantidae (category Mantodea families)
    elevating them to higher rank. Following the major revision of the Mantodea in 2019, the Mantodea Species File includes ten subfamilies: The Americas, Asia Asiadodis...
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    Mantoida (category Mantodea genera)
    of mantis genera and species Mantodea of North America Mantodea of South America "genus Mantoida Newman, 1838". Mantodea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)...
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    cladistically making them cockroaches as well. The Blattodea and the mantis (order Mantodea) are now all considered part of the superorder Dictyoptera. Blattodea includes...
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    Carolina mantis (category Mantodea of North America)
    Company. pp. 117–120. Otte, Daniel; Spearman, Lauren; Stiewe, Martin B.D. "Mantodea Species File Online". Mike Maxwell. "Sexual cannibalism, mate choice, and...
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    Phasmida Species File search (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved March-April 2023) Mantodea Species File search (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved March 2022) Cockroach Species...
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  • free dictionary. Mantis is the common name of any insect in the order Mantodea, also commonly known as praying mantises. Mantis may also refer to: Mantis...
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  • kastneri is a species of praying mantis in the genus Hestiasula in the order Mantodea. List of mantis genera and species [1] Tree of Life Web Project. 2005 v...
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  • Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mantodea Family: Eremiaphilidae Genus: Eremiaphila Species: E. bifasciata Binomial...
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    John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist noted for his artistic talents. He published several...
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    Empusidae (category Mantodea families)
    Empusidae is a family of plant-mimicking mantises (see Mantodea), consisting of 10 genera, in two subfamilies. Unlike many other mantis families, the Empusidae...
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    Mantises and Their Relationships, Including New Taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea)". American Museum Novitates (3412): 1–47. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)412<0001:arocma>2...
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    Acanthops (category Mantodea of South America)
    especies de mántidos para Colombia (Insecta: Mantodea)" [New species of mantids for Colombia (Insecta: Mantodea)] (PDF). Boletín Científico Centro de Museos...
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  • mantises and their relationships, including new taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea)". American Museum Novitates (3412): 1–47. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)412<0001:AROCMA>2...
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    Idolomantis (category Mantodea of Africa)
    anatomical structure of I. diabolica is similar to most species of the order Mantodea, but the morphology of each species varies according to its native habitat...
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  • Eremiaphila pyramidum (category Mantodea of Africa)
    species [1] Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine List of Mantis Species, Texas A&M University [2] Mantodea of Jordan, Al Balqa’a University v t e...
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    intersexuality in horsehair-worm-infected mantids, Hierodula formosana (Mantodea: Mantidae)". Parasitology. 142 (8): 1130–1142. doi:10.1017/S0031182015000360...
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    Heterochaeta orientalis (category Mantodea stubs)
    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mantodea Family: Toxoderidae Genus: Heterochaeta Species: H. orientalis Binomial...
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    Superorder Dictyoptera Order Blattodea (cockroaches and termites) Order Mantodea (praying mantises) Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids)...
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    Empusa pennata (category Mantodea of Europe)
    18(3):389-403 Nentwig W, Reitze M. 1991. Comparative investigation into the feeding ecology of six Mantodea species. Oecologia 86(4):568-574 Tree of Life v t e...
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  • Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mantodea Family: Miomantidae Genus: Miomantis Species: M. fenestrata Binomial name...
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  • This paleoentomology list records new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2014, as well as notes other significant paleoentomology discoveries...
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