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Mantidae

43 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Mantodea › Mantidae

Tenodera australasiae Leach, 1814

The purple-winged mantis (Tenodera australasiae) is a flying praying mantis found across Australia, absent from New Zealand.

Tenodera angustipennis Saussure, 1869

Tenodera angustipennis is a mantis native to Asia/Oceania, introduced and established in eastern North America.

Tenodera superstitiosa (Fabricius, 1781)

Tenodera superstitiosa is a Mantidae family species found in multiple countries across West Africa.

Tenodera fasciata Olivier, 1792

Tenodera fasciata Olivier, 1792 is a Mantidae family mantis native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Okinawa (Ryukyu).

Polyspilota aeruginosa (Goeze, 1778)

Polyspilota aeruginosa, the Madagascan marbled mantis, is an African praying mantis species with different sized sexes.

Omomantis zebrata Charpentier, 1843

Omomantis zebrata, commonly called the zebra mantis, is a mantis species in the genus Omomantis, family Mantidae.

Sphodropoda tristis Saussure, 1871

Sphodropoda tristis, the burying mantis, is a Australian mantis species that gets its common name from female's egg case burying behavior.

Pseudomantis albofimbriata Stal, 1860

Pseudomantis albofimbriata, the false garden mantis, is an Australian mantis with distinct color and wing traits found in multiple habitats.

Archimantis latistyla (Serville, 1839)

Archimantis latistyla, the large brown mantis, is an Australian mantid species with two distinct subspecies.

Hierodula patellifera Serville, 1839

Hierodula patellifera is a stick-shaped mantis native to Southeast Asia, that has spread to new regions with notable intraspecific variation.

Hierodula membranacea Burmeister, 1838

Hierodula membranacea, the giant Asian mantis, is a large cannibalistic mantis native to southeastern Asia.

Hierodula tenuidentata Saussure, 1869

Hierodula tenuidentata is a giant Asian mantis native to India, introduced to parts of southern Europe.

Hierodula majuscula Tindale, 1923

Hierodula majuscula Tindale, 1923 is one of the world's largest mantis species, 7–11 cm long, with a Latin epithet meaning large.

Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

The Transcaucasian Giant Mantis (Hierodula transcaucasica) is a species of praying mantis in the family Mantidae.

Hierodula chinensis Werner, 1929

Hierodula chinensis, the Chinese reddish mantis, is a Mantidae praying mantis native to central-southern China and introduced to Japan and Korea.

Hierodula quinquepatellata Werner, 1911

Hierodula quinquepatellata is a praying mantis species in the Mantidae family found in Lombok, Sumbawa, and Flores.

Rhombodera basalis de Haan, 1842

Rhombodera basalis (Giant Malaysian Shield Mantis) is a praying mantis found across Southeast Asia that lives in trees and bushes.

Rhombodera latipronotum Zhang

Rhombodera latipronotum is a Mantidae family praying mantis found in China, Laos, and Vietnam.

Titanodula formosana Giglio-Tos, 1912

Titanodula formosana is a praying mantis species in subfamily Hierodulinae found in Taiwan, Malaysia, and the Sunda islands.

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