Praying Mantises Versus Orb‐Weaving Spiders [PDF]
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2020 Shinji Sugiura
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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.
Cassar, Thomas
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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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Author Correction: Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 de Alcantara Viana JV +8 more
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Comparative Mitogenomic Analyses of Praying Mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantodea): Origin and Evolution of Unusual Intergenic Gaps [PDF]
International Journal of Biological Sciences, 2017 Hong-Li Zhang
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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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Individuating Cognitive Characters: Lessons from Praying Mantises and Plants [PDF]
Philosophy of ScienceAbstractThis article advances the development of a phylogeny-based psychology in which cognitive ability types are individuated as characters in the evolutionary biological sense. I explain the character concept and its utility in addressing (or dissolving) conceptual problems arising from discoveries of cognitive abilities across a wide range of ...
Figdor, Carrie
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