Grizzled Mantid (suggested common name) Gonatista grisea (Fabricius) (Mantodea: Mantidae)
EDIS, 2017 The grizzled mantid, Gonatista grisea (Fabricius) (Figure 1), is an arboreal (tree dwelling) mantid commonly found in Florida. It is a mottled gray-green in color and somewhat flattened, which allows it to mimic lichens while pressed against tree trunks
Haleigh A. Ray +1 more
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An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Mantodeans or praying mantises are flying insects and well known for their raptorial behaviour, mainly performed by their first pair of thoracic appendages.
Marie K. Hörnig +2 more
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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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All Life, 2022 The orchid mantis Hymenopus coronatus (Insecta: Mantodea) is famous for its unique appearance, which resembles a flower blossom with petal-like legs and a whitish pink colour. Based on this appearance, H.
Jie Luo +6 more
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Three new praying mantises from Panay Island, Philippines (Insecta: Mantodea) [PDF]
Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, 2021 Three new species of praying mantids from the forest remnants of Panay Island, Philippines are described and illustrated. Pliacanthopus (Malayamantis) visayanusn. sp. extends the distribution of the genus, so far only known from Sundaland, to the Philippine archipelago. Compsogusa rheaen. gen. n. sp. and Theopompa schulzeorumn. sp.
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Mitochondrial genomes of praying mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantodea): rearrangement, duplication, and reassignment of tRNA genes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractInsect mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) contain a conserved set of 37 genes for an extensive diversity of lineages. Previously reported dictyopteran mitogenomes share this conserved mitochondrial gene arrangement, although surprisingly little is known about the mitogenome of Mantodea.
Fei Ye, Xu-e Lan, Wen-bo Zhu, Ping You
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A novel form of wasp mimicry in a new species of praying mantis from the Amazon rainforest, Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 A wasp mimicking praying mantis (Mantodea) of the early evolving Mantoididae family was discovered in 2013 at a research station near the Amazon River in Northern Peru.
Gavin J. Svenson, Henrique M. Rodrigues
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Ortopteroid insects (Insecta, Orthopteroidea) of the Tasotkel water reservoir area (Kazakhstan)
Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2017 The article gives a full annotated list of orthopteroid insects of the neighborhood of the Tasotkel water reservoir in the Zhambyl region in the south of Kazakhstan.
I. I. Temreshev, P. A. Esenbekova
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The genus Acontista (Mantodea, Acontistidae) in North and Central America: new records for Mexico, Honduras, and Panama using a citizen-science platform [PDF]
Check ListNew records of mantises of the genus Acontista Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 (Mantodea, Acontistidae) are made for North and Central America via the examination of material deposited in scientific collections as well as using the citizen-science ...
Manuel de Luna +4 more
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Arthropod diversity in Iran: Class Insecta – Polyneoptera, part I. Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882, Mantodea Burmeister, 1838, and Phasmatodea Jacobson & Bianchi, 1902 [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsThis work presents a comprehensive review of the insect orders Mantodea (praying mantises), Blattodea (cockroaches and termites), and Phasmatodea (stick insects) in Iran, based on literature, national checklists, and global taxonomic databases to develop
Zohreh Mirzaee +5 more
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