''Empusa pennicornis'' is a species of
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 ...
in the family
Empusidae
Empusidae is a family of plant-mimicking mantisesSvenson, Gavin J., et al. "Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant‐mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with a new suprageneric classification." Sys ...
.
Tree of Life Web Project. 2005
Subspecies
* '' Empusa pennicornis angulata, E. p. angulata'' (Uzbekistan
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)
* '' E. p. baysunica'' (Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
and Uzbekistan)
* '' E. p. buharica'' (Uzbekistan)
* '' E. p. caputobtusa'' (Tajikistan)
* '' E. p. condarinica'' (Tajikistan)
* '' E. p. copetdagica'' (Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...
)
* '' E. p. hodshamuminica'' (Tajikistán)
* '' E. p. iliense'' (Kazakhstan)
* '' E. p. longoapicale'' (Kazakhstan)
* '' E. p. longidorsa'' (Tajikistan)
* '' E. p. luppovae'' (Tajikistan)
* '' E. p. mujuncumica'' (Kazakhstan)
* '' E. p. orientalis'' (Kazakhstán)
* '' E. p. similis'' (Tajikistan
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)
* '' E. p. vidorsa'' (Kazakhstán and Tajikistán)
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
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Mantodea of Asia
pennicornis
Insects described in 1773