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PLoS ONE, 2015 Understanding the origin and diversification of organisms requires a good phylogenetic estimate of their age and diversification rates. This estimate can be difficult to obtain when samples are limited and fossil records are disputed, as in Dictyoptera ...
Frédéric Legendre +2 more
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Allometry of Ingestion Among Habitat Mimicking Praying Mantises
Ecology and EvolutionIngestion is the process of consuming a resource and is a component of an organism's handling time, which can limit the acquisition of additional resources and decrease predation rate.
Christopher Oufiero +2 more
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Praying mantises possess multiple spectral photoreceptor classes
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral PhysiologyPraying mantises often display elaborate camouflage, disappearing into the shapes, textures, and colors around them. But they have largely been thought to be monochromats, unable to perceive the colors they mimic. To examine this, we tested the compound eye spectral sensitivity of three species of praying mantises, each representing unique mimicry ...
Qian, Ruchao +2 more
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Praying Mantises Versus Orb‐Weaving Spiders [PDF]
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2020 Shinji Sugiura
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Beetle bombing always deters praying mantises
PeerJSome animals have evolved chemical weapons to deter predators. Bombardier beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini) can eject toxic chemicals at temperatures of 100 °C from the tips of their abdomens, 'bombing' the attackers. Although some bombardier beetles can reportedly deter predators, few studies have tested whether bombing is ...
Shinji Sugiura
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Can praying mantises escape from spider webs? [PDF]
Ecology, 2019 Shinji Sugiura
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First record of non-carnivore feeding behavior in a wild praying mantis (Mantodea: Mantidae)
Entomological Communications, 2021 Praying mantises are recognized as carnivorous, exclusively feeding on live prey. Field observations during a praying mantis survey in the Atlantic Rainforest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, revealed an adult male of Stagmatoptera precaria (Linnaeus, 1758 ...
Leonardo M. Lanna +4 more
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Evolutionary history of the Podagrionini, parasitoids of praying mantises [PDF]
2016 International Congress of Entomology, 2016 Toryminae includes 55 valid genera and about 950 described species. It has been historically classified together with Megastigminae in the family Torymidae, but our recent studies have shown that these two subfamilies are not closely related. One of Toryminae tribes is Podagrionini.
Jansta, Peter, Delvare, Gérard
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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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Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 Complex tasks like hunting moving prey in an unpredictable environment require high levels of motor and sensory integration. An animal needs to detect and track suitable prey objects, measure their distance and orientation relative to its own position ...
Anne Wosnitza +4 more
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