The pet mantis market: a first overview on the praying mantis international trade (Insecta, Mantodea) [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2022 Praying mantises have recently gained popularity as domestic pets. Moreover, they are increasingly being bred and sold in fairs and pet markets or collected in the wild and reared by amateurs or professional marketers for the hobbyist community.
Roberto Battiston +2 more
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Neuropeptides from a praying mantis: what the loss of pyrokinins and tryptopyrokinins suggests about the endocrine functions of these peptides [PDF]
PeerJBackground Neuropeptides play important roles in insects, but in many cases their functions remain obscure. Comparative neuropeptidome analyses may provide clues to what these functions might be.
Jan A. Veenstra
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 A new species of Microphotina Beier, 1935 (Mantodea: Photinaidae: Microphotinini), Microphotina cristalino sp. nov., is described from Mato Grosso, Brazil based on two male specimens.
Leonardo Moutinho Lanna +4 more
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Protecting the Eggs of a Praying Mantis: Natural Biomaterials
CHIMIA, 2018 Coiled-coil proteins are the basis of the biomaterial that protects the overwintering eggs of praying mantises.
Catherine E. Housecroft
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Behavioral responses of big brown bats to dives by praying mantises [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2009 SUMMARYInsectivorous echolocating bats face a formidable array of defenses employed by their airborne prey. One such insect defense is the ultrasound-triggered dive, which is a sudden, rapid drop in altitude,sometimes all the way to the ground. Although many previous studies have investigated the dynamics of such dives and their effect on insect ...
Kaushik, Ghose +4 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2014 Parasitism by horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) in Mantodea is well known, but only a few cases of intersexuality were reported in the literature. In the present study, intersexuality of the holotype of Photina gracilis Giglio-Tos, 1915 is documented as a ...
Antonio A. Agudelo R.
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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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Natural Sunlight IR‐Driven Highly Efficient Synthesis of Acetaldehyde From Bioethanol Over Cu/Fe2O3
Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.This work reports a Cu/Fe2O3 catalyst for the conversion of bioethanol into valuable acetaldehyde and green hydrogen under both infrared (IR) light and natural sunlight. This IR‐driven system sets a new performance benchmark, with TON and initial TOF enhanced by at least one order of magnitude, enabled by a constructed IR photon‐to‐phonon channel and ...
Xiyi Li +10 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 The complete mitochondrial genome of the praying mantises Mekongomantis quinquespinosa was characterized in this study. The circular molecule is 15388 bp in length (GenBank accession no.
Shi Yan, Yuan Zhong Lin
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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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