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Luring cannibal: Dishonest sexual signalling in the springbok mantis

Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 10, Page 2849-2859, October 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Sexual signals that attract the opposite sex are typically honest indicators of quality. However, sexually antagonistic selection can favour dishonest signals if poor quality members of the signalling sex can improve their own fitness at a cost to the opposite sex by ...
Laura Knapwerth, Nathan W. Burke
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Chasing the Rains: Seasonal Dynamics of Herbivorous and Predatory Insects in Savannahs in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Austral Ecology, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Tropical savannahs experience pronounced seasonality, especially in rainfall and temperature, shaping plant productivity and resource availability. Yet, temporal patterns in insect diversity remain poorly understood. We investigated seasonal variation in species richness and community composition of moths (herbivores) and mantises (predators ...
Fernando P. Gaona, Sylvain Delabye, Pavel Potocký, Valeriy Govorov, Jan Čuda, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Rafał Garlacz, Martin Hejda, Sandra MacFadyen, Tomasz Pyrcz, Klára Pyšková, Ondřej Sedláček, David Storch, Petr Pyšek, Robert Tropek   +14 more
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Extrinsic and intrinsic musculature of the raptorial forelegs in Mantodea (Insecta) in the light of functionality and sexual dimorphism

, 2023
Prehensile raptorial forelegs are prey capturing and grasping devices, best known for praying mantises (Mantodea) within insects. They show strong morphological and behavioral adaptations toward a lifestyle as generalist arthropod predators. In the past,
Stanislav N. Gorb, Bäumler, Fabian, Fabian Bäumler, Büsse, Sebastian, Sebastian Büsse, Gorb, Stanislav   +5 more
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Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)

Ethology, Volume 131, Issue 8, Page 13-21, August 2025.
Prey often use multiple defences for warding off predator threats. But the factors that influence their optimal deployment are poorly understood. In the springbok mantis, we show that females utilise their defences strategically to match the level of the threat by fleeing in early phases of the predation sequence and standing their ground with startle ...
Nathan W. Burke, Laura Knapwerth
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Mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) of the southwestern part of Odesa Region (Ukraine)

The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette
In the southwestern part of Odesa Region, 167 localities were investigated. These are mainly steppe and meadow areas with varying degrees of grazing pressure, which have been preserved along the valleys of small rivers, in the coastal strips of lagoons and lakes, along gulches, as well as upland areas in the Landscape Reserve ‘Tarutynskyi Step’.
O. I. Bronskov, O. M. Bronskova, Ye. V. Khalaim   +2 more
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Review of Paraphotina (Mantodea: Photinaidae)

, 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 (12844202), José A. Rafael (12844205)   +1 more
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Effects of organic amendments on crop production and soil fauna community in contrasting Zambian soils

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2024.
Abstract The use of organic materials has been widely promoted to improve soil health. Surface‐active soil macrofauna serves as a key biological indicator of soil health as it supports agricultural productivity. However, the effects of organic amendments on soil fauna and their relationships with crop production are still unknown in C‐limited soil ...
Toru Hamamoto, Nhamo Nhamo, David Chikoye, Ikabongo Mukumbuta, Yoshitaka Uchida   +4 more
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A new cockroach (Blattodea, Rhipidoblattinidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK, and the earliest likely occurrence of aposematic colouration in cockroaches

Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 10, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract We describe the seventh valid species of cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi gen. et sp. nov., from insect‐rich strata recording the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T‐OAE). The T‐OAE represents a period of extreme global warming and environmental change that drove palaeoecological pressures and evolutionary changes in marine and terrestrial ...
Emily J. Swaby, Angela L. Coe, Andrew J. Ross   +2 more
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The phylogenetic system of Mantodea (Insecta: Dictyoptera)

, 2013
Softcover, DIN A4Praying mantises (Mantodea) are a charismatic group of raptorial insects. Their main distribution encompasses the tropical and subtropical regions of the world where they have conquered almost every habitat including the sandy deserts ...
Frank Wieland, Wieland, Frank
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Plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis

Functional Ecology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 449-464, February 2024.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Within‐species variation in colour phenotypes is widespread in animals. One mechanism by which such variation can be maintained is plastic background matching, where individuals plastically develop a similar colour to that of their surroundings. A few examples are known
Nathan W. Burke, Gregory Holwell
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