🦋 Family

Amelidae

8 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Mantodea › Amelidae

Apteromantis aptera is an endemic Iberian praying mantis species now rated least concern by the IUCN after past endangerment.

Ameles spallanzania is a small sexually dimorphic mantis native to Mediterranean areas, living in warm, dry sparse vegetation.

Ameles decolor is a small Mediterranean praying mantis with distinct physical differences between males and females.

Ameles heldreichi is a species of praying mantis found across southeastern Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.

Litaneutria minor is a small ground-dwelling mantid with unusually high rates of sexual cannibalism that actively chases prey.

Litaneutria ocularis is a species of praying mantis found in Mexico and southwestern Texas, United States.

Skinner's ground mantis (Litaneutria skinneri) is a praying mantis species found in parts of the western and central United States.

Yersiniops solitarius is a small wingless/short-winged jumping praying mantis native to the southwestern United States.

Related Families

Mantidae 43 species Hymenopodidae 10 species Deroplatyidae 4 species Empusidae 4 species Acanthopidae 3 species Miomantidae 3 species Thespidae 3 species Coptopterygidae 2 species

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