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Bantia Chopardi
''Bantia chopardi'' is a species of praying mantis in the family Thespidae. See also *List of mantis genera and species The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here. The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 ... References chopardi Insects described in 1915 {{Hymenopodidae-stub ...
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Mantodea
Mantises are an Order (biology), order (Mantodea) of insects that contains List of mantis genera and species, 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 mantodeans have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, resembling a praying posture, 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 ...
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Thespidae
Thespidae is a family of insects in the order Mantodea. Following a major revision of this order in 2019, the old-world subfamilies Haaniinae and Hoplocoryphinae, previously placed here, have been upgraded to family level. Thespidae are mostly Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ... and few species have reached the Nearctic realm. Subfamilies and genera The following taxa are recognised in the family Thespidae: See also * List of mantis genera and species References External links * * Mantodea Species File {{Mantodea Mantodea families ...
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List Of Mantis Genera And Species
The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here. The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 genus, genera. 75 of these genera are in the Family (biology), family Mantidae (the mantids), which formerly was the sole family recognized within the order. In some cases, common names in the English language are loosely applied to several different members of a particular genus, or even for species in various genera. For example, "giant Asian mantis" is used for various members of ''Hierodula'', "dead leaf mantis" may refer not only to various species of ''Deroplatys'', but to all brown mantises that use leaf mimicry for camouflage. "flower mantis" refers to numerous mantises, especially those belonging to or similar to those of genus ''Creobroter'', and so on. ---For citation of common nomenclature and additional references, see indiv ...
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Bantia (mantis)
''Bantia'' is a genus of mantises in the family Thespidae. Species *''Bantia chopardi'' Giglio-Tos, 1915 *''Bantia fusca'' Chopard, 1911 *''Bantia marmorata'' Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 *''Bantia metzi'' Beier, 1935 *''Bantia michaelisi'' Beier, 1935 *''Bantia nana'' Toledo Piza, 1969 *''Bantia pygmaea'' Saussure, 1872 *''Bantia simoni'' Chopard, 1916 *''Bantia werneri'' Chopard, 1913 *''Bantia yotocoensis'' Salazar, 2004 See also * List of mantis genera and species References

Bantia (mantis), Thespidae Mantodea genera Taxa named by Carl Stål {{Mantodea-stub ...
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