Mantis, the Glossary
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families.[1]
Table of Contents
184 relations: Acanthopidae, Ad libitum, Aethalochroa, Afrikaans, Aggressive mimicry, Aldous Huxley, Ambush predator, Amelidae, Amorphoscelidae, Anatomical terms of location, Ancient drachma, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Angelidae, Animal echolocation, Ant mimicry, Antenna (biology), Anti-predator adaptation, Arthropod, Arthropod leg, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Assyria, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, Baissomantidae, Bauhaus, Binocular vision, Biological pest control, Blattodea, Book of the Dead, Brunneria borealis, Byzantine Empire, Carolina mantis, Cartoon, Cercus, Chaeteessidae, Chinese mantis, Choeradodis, Chroicopteridae, Cladogram, Cockroach, Compound eye, Convergent evolution, Coptopterygidae, Crato Formation, Creobroter gemmatus, Cretaceous, Cretomantidae, Crypsis, CT scan, ǀKaggen, ... Expand index (134 more) »
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Acanthopidae
Acanthopidae is a family of South American mantises consisting of 16 genera in the order Mantodea. Mantis and Acanthopidae are Mantodea.
Ad libitum
In music and other performing arts, the phrase ad libitum (from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.
Aethalochroa
Aethalochroa is a genus of praying mantis in the family Toxoderidae.
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Aggressive mimicry
Aggressive mimicry is a form of mimicry in which predators, parasites, or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.
Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals that capture their prey via stealth, luring or by (typically instinctive) strategies utilizing an element of surprise.
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Amelidae
The mantis family Amelidae was previously placed in the family Mantidae. Mantis and Amelidae are Mantodea.
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelidae is a family of mantises in the order Mantodea. Mantis and Amorphoscelidae are Mantodea.
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Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.
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Ancient drachma
In ancient Greece, the drachma (drachmḗ,; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Angelidae
Angelidae is a family of mantises found in tropical Central and South Americas.
Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Ant mimicry
Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times.
Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
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Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Arthropod leg
The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence.
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Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (March 30, 1705 in Augustenburg near Arnstadt – March 27, 1759 in Nuremberg) was a German miniature painter, naturalist and entomologist.
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Baissomantidae
Baissomantidae is an extinct family of primitive mantises known from the Cretaceous period. Mantis and Baissomantidae are Mantodea.
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.
Binocular vision
In biology, binocular vision is a type of vision in which an animal has two eyes capable of facing the same direction to perceive a single three-dimensional image of its surroundings.
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Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms. Mantis and Biological pest control are insects in culture.
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Blattodea
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites.
Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC.
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Brunneria borealis
Brunneria borealis, common name Brunner's mantis, Brunner's stick mantis, or northern grass mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to the southern United States.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carolina mantis
The Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) is a species of praying mantis of the subfamily Stagmomantinae.
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Cartoon
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.
Cercus
Cerci (cercus) are paired appendages usually on the rear-most segments of many arthropods, including insects and symphylans.
Chaeteessidae
Chaeteessidae is a family of praying mantises. Mantis and Chaeteessidae are Mantodea.
Chinese mantis
The Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) is a species of mantis native to Asia and the nearby islands.
Choeradodis
Choeradodis is a genus of praying mantises with common names such as shield mantis, hood mantis (or hooded mantis), and leaf mantis (or leafy mantis) because of their extended, leaf-like thoraces.
Chroicopteridae
The Chroicopteridae are a family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Chroicoptera.
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Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
Cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago. Mantis and cockroach are insects in culture.
Compound eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Coptopterygidae
Coptopterygidae is a family of mantises in the order Mantodea. Mantis and Coptopterygidae are Mantodea.
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Crato Formation
The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin.
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Creobroter gemmatus
Creobroter gemmatus, common name jeweled flower mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to Asia.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cretomantidae
Cretomantidae is an extinct family of mantises in the order Mantodea. Mantis and Cretomantidae are Mantodea.
Crypsis
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant to avoid observation or detection by other animals.
CT scan
A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.
ǀKaggen
ǀKaggen pronounced (more accurately ǀKágge̥n or ǀKaggən, sometimes spelled as Cagn, and sometimes called Mantis) is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of southern Africa.
Dactylopterygidae
Dactylopterygidae is a family of praying mantises, based on the type genus Dactylopteryx.
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Deimatic behaviour
Deimatic behaviour or startle display means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.
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Deroplatyidae
The Deroplatyidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantises, based on the type genus Deroplatys. Mantis and Deroplatyidae are Mantodea.
Diapause
In animal dormancy, diapause is the delay in development in response to regular and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.
Dictyoptera
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον diktyon "net" and πτερόν pteron "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises).
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
Ecological Economics (journal)
Ecological Economics.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Empusidae
Empusidae is a family of plant-mimicking mantisesSvenson, Gavin J., et al. Mantis and Empusidae are Mantodea.
Epaphroditidae
Epaphroditidae is a family of the Mantodea, containing species found in Africa and the Caribbean. Mantis and Epaphroditidae are Mantodea.
Eremiaphilidae
Eremiaphilidae is a small Old World family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Eremiaphila. Mantis and Eremiaphilidae are Mantodea.
Erya
The Erya or Erh-ya is the first surviving Chinese dictionary.
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European mantis
The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) is a large hemimetabolic insect in the family of the Mantidae ('mantids'), which is the largest family of the order Mantodea (mantises). Mantis and European mantis are insects used as insect pest control agents.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
Femme fatale
A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.
Flower mantis
Flower mantises are praying mantises that use a special form of camouflage referred to as aggressive mimicry, which they not only use to attract prey, but avoid predators as well. Mantis and Flower mantis are Mantodea.
Forelimb
A forelimb or front limb is one of the paired articulated appendages (limbs) attached on the cranial (anterior) end of a terrestrial tetrapod vertebrate's torso.
Galinthiadidae
Galinthiadidae is a family of 24 African mantis species (order Mantodea) in four genera. Mantis and Galinthiadidae are Mantodea.
Ganglion
A ganglion (ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.
Gecko
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica.
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Gerald Durrell
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.
Gland
A gland is a cell or an organ in an animal's body that produces and secretes different substances either into the bloodstream or into a body cavity or outer surface that the organism needs.
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Gongylus gongylodes
Gongylus gongylodes, also known as the wandering violin mantis, ornate mantis, or Indian rose mantis, is a species of praying mantis in the family Empusidae.
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Gonypetidae
The Gonypetidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Gonypeta. Mantis and Gonypetidae are Mantodea.
Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. Mantis and Grasshopper are insects in culture.
Green Porno
Green Porno is a series of short films on animal sexual behaviour.
Grylloblattidae
Grylloblattidae, commonly known as the icebugs or ice crawlers, is a family of extremophile (psychrophile) and wingless insects that live in the cold on top of mountains and the edges of glaciers.
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Haaniidae
The Haaniidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Haania.
Hemimetabolism or hemimetaboly, also called partial metamorphosis and paurometabolism,McGavin, George C. Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction.
Hermann Burmeister
Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botanist, and coleopterologist.
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History of Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a nation in Central America.
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Hoplocoryphidae
Hoplocoryphidae is a newly erected (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Hoplocorypha.
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Hottentot (racial term)
Hottentot (British and South African English) is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa.
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Hymenopodidae
Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Mantis and Hymenopodidae are Mantodea.
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
International Society for Ecological Economics
The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) was founded in 1989, based heavily on the work of Herman Daly to promote ecological economics and assist ecological economists and related societies.
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Iris oratoria
Iris oratoria, known by the common name Mediterranean mantis (or less frequently iris mantis), due to humans first studying it in lands around the Mediterranean Sea, is a species of praying mantis.
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress and model.
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Island (Huxley novel)
Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963.
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Khoekhoe
Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ ''KOY-koy'') (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
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Leptomantellidae
The Leptomantellidae are a new (2019), small family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Leptomantella.
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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.
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List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe
This list contains extant European genera of the "Orthopteroid" orders (or Polyneoptera) that are often studied and written-about together.
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List of story structures
A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film.
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Liturgusidae
Liturgusidae is a family of praying mantises in the new (2019) Neotropical superfamily Acanthopoidea. Mantis and Liturgusidae are Mantodea.
Lucania
Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, corresponding to the modern-day region of Basilicata.
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.
Majangidae
The Majangidae are a revived (2019) family of praying mantids from Madagascar. Mantis and Majangidae are Mantodea.
Mandible (insect mouthpart)
Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure).
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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. Mantis and Mantidae are Mantodea and taxa named by Hermann Burmeister.
Mantispidae
Mantispidae, known commonly as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings, mantisflies or mantis-flies, is a family of small to moderate-sized insects in the order Neuroptera. Mantis and Mantispidae are insects used as insect pest control agents.
Mantoida
Mantoida is a genus of praying mantises in the family Mantoididae.
Mantoididae
Mantoididae is a family of praying mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. Mantis and Mantoididae are Mantodea.
Martial arts
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.
Mesothorax
The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs.
Metallyticus is a genus of praying mantis.
Metapontum or Metapontium (Metapontion) was an important city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus (modern Basento).
The metathorax is the posterior of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the third pair of legs.
Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.
Miomantidae
Miomantidae is a family of praying mantises in the order Mantodea.
Monster movie
A monster movie, monster film, creature feature or giant monster film is a film that focuses on one or more characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters, often abnormally large ones.
Motion camouflage
Motion camouflage is camouflage which provides a degree of concealment for a moving object, given that motion makes objects easy to detect however well their coloration matches their background or breaks up their outlines.
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My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell.
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Nanomantidae
The Nanomantidae are a new (2019) family of praying mantises, based on the type genus Nanomantis. Mantis and Nanomantidae are Mantodea.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Necromancy
Necromancy is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge.
Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantisflies, antlions, and their relatives.
Nineveh
Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Northern Praying Mantis
Northern Praying Mantis is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis after its province of origin.
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Nymph (biology)
In biology, a nymph (from Ancient Greek νύμφα nūmphē meaning "bride") is the juvenile form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage.
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Ommatidium
The compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and millipedes are composed of units called ommatidia (ommatidium).
Ootheca
An ootheca (oothecae) is a type of egg capsule made by any member of a variety of species including mollusks (such as Turbinella laevigata), mantises, and cockroaches.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Orthodera
Orthodera is a genus of praying mantises that can be found in Australia and Southeast Asia, with one species (Orthodera novaezealandiae) said to be the only native species of mantis of New Zealand.
Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
Parasitoid wasp
Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita.
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Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος|translit.
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Pest (organism)
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. Mantis and pest (organism) are insects in culture.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
Pet
A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal.
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Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks.
Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
Photinaidae
Photinaidae is a family of mantises in the order Neotropical Mantodea, in the superfamily Acanthopoidea. Mantis and Photinaidae are Mantodea.
Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
Polyphyly
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.
Prayer
Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Prothorax
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs.
Pseudopupil
In the compound eye of invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans, the pseudopupil appears as a dark spot which moves across the eye as the animal is rotated.
Raptorial
In biology (specifically the anatomy of arthropods), the term raptorial implies much the same as predatory but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successive leg segments (see illustration).
Ray (optics)
In optics, a ray is an idealized geometrical model of light or other electromagnetic radiation, obtained by choosing a curve that is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the actual light, and that points in the direction of energy flow.
Rivetinidae
The Rivetinidae are a family of praying mantids, based on the type genus Rivetina. Mantis and Rivetinidae are Mantodea.
Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
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Santanmantis
Santanmantis is an extinct genus of mantises, the sole genus in the family Santanmantidae. The only species, Santanmantis axelrodi, is known from the Crato Formation of Brazil, dating to the late Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Mantis and Santanmantis are Mantodea.
Schizocephala
Schizocephala is a genus of praying mantises in the monotypic tribe Schizocephalini.
Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Sexual cannibalism
Sexual cannibalism is when an animal, usually the female, cannibalizes its mate prior to, during, or after copulation.
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Southern Praying Mantis
Southern Praying Mantis is a Chinese martial art originating with the Hakka people.
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Sphodromantis lineola
Sphodromantis lineola, common name African mantis or African praying mantis, is a species of praying mantis from Africa sometimes raised in captivity.
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Sphodromantis viridis
Sphodromantis viridis is a species of praying mantis that is kept worldwide as a pet.
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Spiracle (arthropods)
A spiracle or stigma is the opening in the exoskeletons of insects, myriapods, velvet worms and many arachnids to allow air to enter the trachea.
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Statilia
Statilia is a genus of praying mantis that resembles dead or living grass.
Stereopsis
Stereopsis is the component of depth perception retrieved through binocular vision.
Sternum (arthropod anatomy)
The sternum (sterna) is the ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen.
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Suda
The Suda or Souda (Soûda; Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas (Σουίδας).
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Sundance TV
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996.
Supernatural
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.
Systematics
Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.
Tachytes
Tachytes is a genus of predatory, solitary wasps, containing about 300 species.
Tarachodes maurus
Tarachodes maurus is a species of praying mantis in the family Eremiaphilidae.
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Tarachodidae
Tarachodidae is a now obsolete family in the order Mantodea, of genera found in Africa and Asia. Mantis and Tarachodidae are Mantodea.
Tegmen
A tegmen (tegmina) designates the modified leathery front wing on an insect particularly in the orders Dermaptera (earwigs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and similar families), Mantodea (praying mantis), Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects) and Blattodea (cockroaches).
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tergum
A tergum (Latin for "the back";: terga, associated adjective tergal) is the dorsal ('upper') portion of an arthropod segment other than the head.
Termite
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus. Mantis and Termite are insects in culture.
The Deadly Mantis
The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 American science fiction monster film produced by William Alland for Universal-International.
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The Passion of Lovers
"The Passion of Lovers" is the sixth single released by British gothic rock band Bauhaus.
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Thespidae
Thespidae is a family of insects in the order Mantodea. Mantis and Thespidae are Mantodea.
Thorax (arthropod anatomy)
The thorax is the midsection (tagma) of the hexapod body (insects and entognathans).
See Mantis and Thorax (arthropod anatomy)
Tiger beetle
Tiger beetles are a family of beetles, Cicindelidae, known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed.
Toxoderidae
Toxoderidae is a family of praying mantises. Mantis and Toxoderidae are Mantodea.
Trope (literature)
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.
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Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
Tympanum (anatomy)
The tympanum is an external hearing structure in animals such as mammals, birds, some reptiles, some amphibians and some insects.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals.
Zenobius
Zenobius (Ζηνόβιος) was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138).
See also
Extant Cretaceous first appearances
- Alethinophidia
- Antlion
- Argasidae
- Bichir
- Calappidae
- Carcharias
- Centroberyx
- Dolichopodidae
- Eel
- Empididae
- Eubrachyura
- Eutardigrade
- Fissurina (foram)
- Glycymeris
- Heptranchias
- Ixodidae
- Lanternfish
- Lingula (brachiopod)
- Liquidambar
- Lorica (chiton)
- Mactridae
- Mantis
- Margaritifera
- Mastotermes
- Murex
- Mymarommatidae
- Nephrops
- Odontaspis
- Orthurethra
- Pandermochelys
- Pecten (bivalve)
- Platanaceae
- Ranunculaceae
- Rosaceae
- Rosids
- Sciaridae
- Sigmurethra
- Stylommatophora
- Superasterids
- Superrosids
- Theridiidae
- Tympanotonos
- Volutoidea
- Zoraptera
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis
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