🦋 Family

Empusidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Mantodea › Empusidae

Blepharopsis mendica is the only species in the Blepharopsis genus of praying mantis, found across parts of Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean.

Gongylus gongylodes, the wandering violin mantis, is a communal South Asian praying mantis often kept as a pet.

Empusa pennata, the conehead mantis, is a Mediterranean praying mantis rarely encountered in the wild that hunts moving living prey.

Empusa fasciata is a praying mantis species found across parts of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, with a distinct annual life cycle.

Related Families

Mantidae 43 species Hymenopodidae 10 species Amelidae 8 species Deroplatyidae 4 species Acanthopidae 3 species Miomantidae 3 species Thespidae 3 species Coptopterygidae 2 species

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