''Citharomantis falcata'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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 ...

native to

Sumatra Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...

and

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

. It is the sole member of its

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

and is related to the genus ''

Acromantis ''Acromantis''de Saussure HLF (1870) ''Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges.'' 3: 226,229. is a genus of Asian praying mantids in the subfamily Acromantinae of the family Hymenopodidae Hymenopodidae is a Family (biology), family of the Order (biology), o ...

'' ( Saussure, 1870).

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Mantodea genera Acromantinae Mantodea of Southeast Asia Insects of Borneo Insects of Indonesia Fauna of Sumatra Monotypic insect genera {{hymenopodidae-stub

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