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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 (Linnaeus, 1758) and Rivetina baetica Rambur, 1839.
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FIGURE 3 in A review of the research on Canary Islands praying mantises (Mantodea)

, 2014
FIGURE 3. Graphs showing Mantodea species numbers in relation to: a) island size, b) distance from mainland Africa, and c) island age. Abbreviations: EHr El Hierro, Fvt Fuerteventura, GrC Gran Canaria, LGm La Gomera, LPm La Palma, Lzr Lanzarote, Trf ...
Goldberg, Julia, Schütte, Kai, Wieland, Frank   +2 more
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Unveiling details of the dry-leaf praying mantids: Insights into two species of Decimiana (Mantodea, Acanthopidae) and new records for Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research
Acanthopidae is the third most diverse family within the Neotropical praying mantids with its genera presenting a high similarity with dry leaves in different levels of senescence or lichens and moss.
Bernardo R. Ferraz, Renan S. Olivier, Pedro G. B. Souza-Dias   +2 more
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Transfer of Potentially Toxic Metal(loid)s From Ultramafic Soils in a Tri‐Trophic Food Chain Experiment

Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
Potentially toxic metal(loid)s (PTMs) bioaccumulated across a plant‐herbivore‐predator food chain. Irrespective of soil concentrations, female crickets actively selected PTM‐enriched leaves, while predatory mantids showed no developmental impairment. Trophic transfer of PTMs was rather influenced more by a function of intrinsic species traits than by ...
João Marcelo‐Silva, Tean Francois Joubert, Stefan John Siebert, Bianca Greyvenstein   +3 more
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Postembryonic development of the predatory strike mechanics in a praying mantis (Insecta: Mantodea)

Physiological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 377-396, September 2026.
Praying mantis forelegs capture prey using specific kinematic and kinetic traits that change in size and morphology during postembryonic growth and sexual dimorphism influences these dynamics. Strike forces grow hyperallometrically with body weight; larger mantises show longer strike durations, slower joint angular velocities and increased tibia ...
Thies H. Büscher, Fabian Bäumler, Stanislav N. Gorb, Sebastian Büsse   +3 more
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Insects and Survival: A Review of Primary and Secondary Defense Strategies

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 174, Issue 7, Page 601-624, July 2026.
Based on a review of three decades of literature, insect defense mechanisms are classified into primary (I) and secondary (II) mechanisms of behavioral, morphological, and chemical nature. These mechanisms have been recorded in 22 (I) and 20 (II) orders, respectively.
Lucas Fernandes Silva, Rodrigo Almeida Pinheiro, José Cola Zanuncio, Conceição Aparecida dos Santos   +3 more
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Ameles spallanzania (Insecta, Dictyoptera): A newly introduced species of Mantodea in Crimean fauna [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research
Recent years have seen the arrival of many non-native species of praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) around the globe. These introductions are thought to be either accidental, aided by human transport and decorative plants, or a result of expansion of ...
Valeriy Govorov
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Snacking on snails: Novel prey and the distributions of Polyspilota praying mantids (Mantodea, Mantidae) in South Africa [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research
Mantises predominantly prey on invertebrates but occasionally also on small vertebrates. We describe the distributions of the three Polyspilota species (Mantodea: Mantidae) that occur in South Africa, based on 466 specimen records from local and ...
Bianca Greyvenstein, Paul Janse van Rensburg, Terence Bellingan, Johnnie van den Berg, Kurt Jordaens, Riaan Stals, John Midgley   +6 more
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Unexpected Evolutionary Divergence of Tachykinin‐Positive Neurons Innervating the Central Complex in Hexapods

Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 534, Issue 3, March 2026.
The central complex is a group of midline‐spanning neuropils in the brain of insects with a key role in goal‐directed orientation and navigation. Immunolabeling in 25 species, ranging from bristletails to flies, shows that neurons containing peptides of the tachykinin family of neuropeptides are present in most species studied.
Uwe Homberg, Jing Xu, Tim Keyser, Fedor Suzdalenkov, Fabian Wimmer, Martina Fromandi, Stefano Bianco, Michelle Tez, Stefan Dippel   +8 more
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Genetic diversity and molecular phylogeographic analysis of an alien praying mantis, Hierodula chinensis, in Japan

Entomological Science, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2026.
Analysis of the COI gene in 127 individuals of Hierodula chinensis from 40 sites in Japan revealed 18 haplotypes that clustered into two genetically distinct clades. Thirteen haplotypes were each detected in only a single prefecture, whereas five haplotypes were found across multiple prefectures. Abstract Hierodula chinensis Werner (Mantodea: Mantidae),
Raito Ioka, Kazuhisa Yamasaki, Hideshi Naka, Norio Hirai, Shouhei Ueda   +4 more
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