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Zoolea
''Zoolea'' is a South American genus of praying mantises. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Zoolea descampsi'' Roy & Ehrmann, 2009 * '' Zoolea lobipes'' Olivier, 1792 - type species * '' Zoolea major'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea minor'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea orba'' Burmeister, 1838 Description A characteristic of this genus is anterior femora with superior pre- apical lobes. This genus is one which contains species known as Unicorn Mantis. List of mantises and common names References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10724780 Mantidae Mantodea of South America ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoolea Lobipes
''Zoolea'' is a South American genus of praying mantises. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Zoolea descampsi'' Roy & Ehrmann, 2009 * '' Zoolea lobipes'' Olivier, 1792 - type species * ''Zoolea major'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea minor'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea orba'' Burmeister, 1838 Description A characteristic of this genus is anterior femora with superior pre-apical Apical means "pertaining to an apex". It may refer to: * Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species (biology) or a clan (anthropology) *Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features l ... lobes. This genus is one which contains species known as Unicorn Mantis. List of mantises and common names References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10724780[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoolea Descampsi
''Zoolea'' is a South American genus of praying mantises. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Zoolea descampsi'' Roy & Ehrmann, 2009 * ''Zoolea lobipes'' Olivier, 1792 - type species * ''Zoolea major'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea minor'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea orba'' Burmeister, 1838 Description A characteristic of this genus is anterior femora with superior pre-apical Apical means "pertaining to an apex". It may refer to: * Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species (biology) or a clan (anthropology) *Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features l ... lobes. This genus is one which contains species known as Unicorn Mantis. List of mantises and common names References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10724780[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoolea Major
''Zoolea'' is a South American genus of praying mantises. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * '' Zoolea descampsi'' Roy & Ehrmann, 2009 * '' Zoolea lobipes'' Olivier, 1792 - type species * '' Zoolea major'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea minor'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea orba'' Burmeister, 1838 Description A characteristic of this genus is anterior femora with superior pre-apical Apical means "pertaining to an apex". It may refer to: * Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species (biology) or a clan (anthropology) *Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features l ... lobes. This genus is one which contains species known as Unicorn Mantis. List of mantises and common names References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10724780[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoolea Minor
''Zoolea'' is a South American genus of praying mantises. Species The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists: * ''Zoolea descampsi'' Roy & Ehrmann, 2009 * ''Zoolea lobipes'' Olivier, 1792 - type species * ''Zoolea major'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea minor'' Giglio-Tos, 1914 * '' Zoolea orba'' Burmeister, 1838 Description A characteristic of this genus is anterior femora with superior pre-apical Apical means "pertaining to an apex". It may refer to: * Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species (biology) or a clan (anthropology) *Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features l ... lobes. This genus is one which contains species known as Unicorn Mantis. List of mantises and common names References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10724780[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unicorn Mantis (other)
Unicorn mantis is a common name for several species of praying mantis across different genera with horn-like protrusions on their heads including: *''Phthersigena unicornis ''Phthersigena unicornis'' is a species of praying mantis native to Australia. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantidae
Mantidae is one of the largest families in the order of praying mantises, based on the type species ''Mantis religiosa''; however, most genera are tropical or subtropical. Historically, this was the only family in the order, and many references still use the term "mantid" to refer to any mantis. Technically, however, "mantid" refers only to members of the family Mantidae, and not the 14 remaining families of mantises. Some of the most recent classifications have promoted a number of the mantid subfamilies to the rank of family, e.g. Iridopterygidae, Sibyllidae, Tarachodidae, Thespidae, and Toxoderidae, while other classifications have reduced the number of subfamilies without elevating to higher rank. Subfamilies and genera Following the major revision of the Mantodea in 2019, the ''Mantodea Species File'' includes ten subfamilies: Choeradodinae The Americas, Asia * ''Asiadodis'' Roy, 2004 * ''Choeradodis'' Serville, 1831 * †'' Prochaeradodis'' Piton, 1940 Deromantinae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praying Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches ( Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other more distantly related insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies ( Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features. This includes aspects of the outward appearance ( shape, structure, colour, pattern, size), i.e. external morphology (or eidonomy), as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs, i.e. internal morphology (or anatomy). This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function. Morphology is a branch of life science dealing with the study of gross structure of an organism or taxon and its component parts. History The etymology of the word "morphology" is from the Ancient Greek (), meaning "form", and (), meaning "word, study, research". While the concept of form in biology, opposed to function, dates back to Aristotle (see Aristotle's biology), the field of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist and physiologist Karl Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femora
The femur (; ), or thigh bone, is the proximal bone of the hindlimb in tetrapod vertebrates. The head of the femur articulates with the acetabulum in the pelvic bone forming the hip joint, while the distal part of the femur articulates with the tibia (shinbone) and patella (kneecap), forming the knee joint. By most measures the two (left and right) femurs are the strongest bones of the body, and in humans, the largest and thickest. Structure The femur is the only bone in the upper leg. The two femurs converge medially toward the knees, where they articulate with the proximal ends of the tibiae. The angle of convergence of the femora is a major factor in determining the femoral-tibial angle. Human females have thicker pelvic bones, causing their femora to converge more than in males. In the condition ''genu valgum'' (knock knee) the femurs converge so much that the knees touch one another. The opposite extreme is ''genu varum'' (bow-leggedness). In the general population o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apical (anatomy)
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position provides a definition of what is at the front ("anterior"), behind ("posterior") and so on. As part of defining and describing terms, the body is described through the use of anatomical planes and anatomical axes. The meaning of terms that are used can change depending on whether an organism is bipedal or quadrupedal. Additionally, for some animals such as invertebrates, some terms may not have any meaning at all; for example, an animal that is radially symmetrical will have no anterior surface, but can still have a description that a part is close to the middle ("proximal") or further from the middle ("distal"). International organisations have determined vocabularies that are often used as standard vocabularies for subdisciplines of anatomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
