Mantis (genus)
Mantis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Mantodea |
Family: | Mantidae |
Tribe: | Mantini |
Genus: | Mantis Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species | |
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The genus Mantis is in the family Mantidae, of the mantis order Mantodea.
Some of its species have the common name "praying mantis".
Species[]
Mantis is a small genus of mantises, which includes 9 species (others are synonyms):[1]
- Roy, 1999 – Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Wood-Mason, 1882
- Cosmovici, 1888
- Gistel, 1856
- Saussure, 1869
- Paulian, 1958
- Beier, 1954 – Angola, Guinea, Congo
- Lindt, 1973[2] – Tajikistan
- Lindt, 1974 – Tajikistan
- Mantis octospilota Westwood, 1889 — "eight-spotted mantis", or "blackbarrel mantid", Australia
- Serville, 1839
- Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus, 1758) — European mantis, or "praying mantis"
- de Haan, 1842
- Linne, 1767
See also[]
- African mantises — in other genera.
- European mantis
- List of mantis genera and species (incomplete)
References[]
- ^ *Otte D., Spearman L. and Stiewe M.B.D Mantidae in Mantodea Species File Online. Version 1.0/3.5
- ^ Mantodea database
External links[]
Media related to Mantis at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Mantis (genus)
- Mantodea genera
- Mantidae
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus