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Morphology and material composition of raptorial foreleg cuticles in praying mantises Gongylus gongylodes and Sphodromantis lineola [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPraying mantises (Mantodea, Insecta) are capable of capturing larger invertebrates and also smaller vertebrates with their raptorial forelegs. Forelegs may exhibit morphological adaptations based on the type of prey they prefer (e.g., softer or harder ...
Timo Zeimet +2 more
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MANGF: a reference library of DNA barcodes for Mantodea from French Guiana (Insecta, Dictyoptera) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalMantodea plays a special role in the food chain as a group charismatic generalist predators. They regulate invertebrate populations while themselves being prey for many larger animals such as reptiles and birds.
Nicolas Moulin
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Mantodea (Insecta) collection in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo: taxonomic and geographical coverage [PDF]
Check List, 2013 The insect collection of the Museum of Zoology, University of São Paulo (MZSP), is one of the largest collections representative of the Neotropical fauna in the world.
Henrique Rodrigues, Eliana Cancello
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Data for praying mantis mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic constructions within Mantodea
Data in Brief, 2018 In this data article, we provide five datasets of mantis mitochondrial genomes: (1) PCG123: nucleotide sequences of 13 protein-coding genes including all codon positions; (2) PCG123R: nucleotide sequences of two rRNAs and 13 protein-coding genes ...
Le-Ping Zhang +4 more
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2019 The fossil cockroaches (Blattodea), praying mantises (Mantodea) and earwigs (Demaptera) are described from the Insect Limestone (Priabonian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England.
Ross, Andrew
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Review of Paraphotina (Mantodea: Photinaidae) [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2016 The number of studies on Neotropical mantises has been growing in recent years, and the systematics of Mantodea is now a dynamic field with noteworthy contributions. Several taxonomic revisions have been published recently.
Antonio A. Agudelo, José A. Rafael
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Rhythmic Abdominal Pumping Movements in Praying Mantises (Insecta: Mantodea)
Fragmenta Entomologica, 2019 We analyzed the rhythmic, cyclical dorsal-ventral abdominal pumping movements of nymphal and adult Hierodula patellifera (Audinet- Serville 1839), and adult Stagmomantis carolina (Johansson 1763), Tenodera sinensis (de Saussure 1871), Miomantis paykullii
Carrion, Christina +6 more
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The praying mantises of the Maltese Islands: distribution and ecology (Mantodea)
Fragmenta Entomologica, 2020 This study presents a species account of the mantises of the Maltese Islands, including notes on the ecology and distribution of each species. A total of three species are known to exist locally; Ameles spallanzania (Rossi, 1792), Mantis religiosa ...
Cassar, Thomas
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Zootaxa, 2014 Schwarz, Christian J., Konopik, Oliver (2014): An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak.
Konopik, Oliver, Schwarz, Christian J.
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Zootaxa, 2014 Roy, Roger (2014): A historical review of nomenclature and high-level classification of praying mantises (Mantodea), including a provisional checklist of the names associated to suprageneric ranks.
Roy, Roger
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