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Defensive behaviour in Ghanaian praying mantids

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1972
The defensive behaviour of 25 species of praying mantids from Ghana is described. All have camouflage as the primary defence mechanism, either a general resemblance to vegetation, or a specific resemblance to bark, sticks, leaves or grass. Secondary defence mechanisms include running, flying, thanatosis, secretion of fluid from the mouth, startle ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Massive horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of nematomorph-driven behavioral manipulation of mantids.

Current Biology, 2023
To complete their life cycle, a wide range of parasites must manipulate the behavior of their hosts.1 This manipulation is a well-known example of the "extended phenotype,2" where genes in one organism have phenotypic effects on another organism.
Tappei Mishina   +10 more
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A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Como National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea).

Zootaxa, 2023
The Como National Park (CNP), located in the north-eastern part of the Ivory Coast, is strongly influenced by the river Como, which is eponymous for the park.
Christian J. Schwarz   +2 more
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Taxonomic study on praying mantids (Insecta: Mantodea) of Goodrical range forest, Kerala, India, with the description of a new species

ENTOMON, 2022
Mantid fauna of the forested tracts of different localities within the Goodrical forest range of the southern Western Ghats, Ranni forest division, Kerala, India were surveyed. During the Rapid Biodiversity Assessment (RBA) a total of 13 mantid specimens
A. P. Kamila, P. M. Sureshan
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Contribution to the Knowledge of Mantids (Insecta, Mantodea) in Central Mexico: A Morphological and Molecular Approach

The Southwestern entomologist, 2022
. Mantids (Insecta, Mantodea) are a monophyletic group of insects in the Dictyoptera clade. The group has not been well studied for Mexico, and its diversity and biogeographical patterns are not well documented.
F. Varela-Hernández   +3 more
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MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THREE SPECIES OF PRAYING MANTIDS (DICTYOPTERA; MANTODEA) FROM SINDH, PAKISTAN

Plant cell biotechnology and molecular biology, 2022
In the present experiment, sequencing of three species of mantodea belonging to the family Mantidae is conducted in iBOL (International Barcode of Life) University of Guelph, Canada.
S. Fatimah   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hunting the Hunter: Insights into Natural Enemies of Praying Mantids

Records of the Zoological Survey of India
This is the first attempt to make an outline of the threats faced by praying mantids in the nature by categorizing their enemies into six groups namely parasites, arachnid predators, other invertebrates, vertebrates, microbial pathogens and cannibalism ...
A. P. Kamila, P. M. Sureshan
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An illustrated key to the praying mantids (Insecta: Mantodea) of India up to generic level.

Zootaxa
A dichotomous key up to generic level is provided for the identification of Indian praying mantids (Insecta: Mantodea) with pictorial representations of 70 genera distributed over 13 families and 25 subfamilies.
A. P. Kamila, P. M. Sureshan
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Predatory Behavior of Praying Mantids (Mantidae:Mantodea) from Sindh, Pakistan

Indus Journal of Bioscience Research
Diverse activities (predators, scavengers, etc) for acquiring food is called feeding behavior.  The aforesaid food or the prey is obtain diversely by different predators with the help of special capabilities (like lion, leopard, hyena, etc) but in ...
Jawaid A. Khokhar   +6 more
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