True mantis

	True mantis
	; Common Praying Mantis ( Mantis religiosa )
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Primary
No rank :	Molting
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Tracheo-breathing
Overclass :	Six-legged
Grade:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	Winged insects
Treasure :	Polyneoptera
Squadron :	Cockroach
Squad:	Praying Mantis
Family:	True mantis
International scientific name
	Mantidae Burmeister , 1838
Synonyms
	Manteidae Saussure , 1859;

Real mantis ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ( lat. Mantidae ) - insect family, the largest in the order of mantis (Mantodea). About 1500 species ^[5] .

Content

Description

Structural details of the modified foreleg

The upper part of the head without protrusions ^[6] . Protorax is several times longer than its width. Ventrolateral spines of fore tibia vertical or inclined, more or less distant from each other ^[7] . The largest species is Ischnomantis gigas : a female found in Africa had a record length of 17 cm for mantis ^[8] .

Classification

The family includes about 1,500 species, or more than half of all mantis known to science ^[5] ^[9] . In Europe, 11 genera and 37 species ^[10] .

Subfamilies

Chinese mantis

Amelinae (including the genera Amantis , Ameles, and Pseudoyersinia )
Angelinae
Antemninae (including the genus Antemna )
Choeradodinae (including the genus Choeradodis )
Chroicopterinae
Compsothespis
Deroplatyinae
Dystactinae
Mantinae
Mellierinae
Miomantinae (including the genus Ischnomantis )
Orthoderinae
Oxyothespinae
Photininae
Phyllotheliinae
Schizocephalinae with a single species of Schizocephala bicornis
Stagmatopterinae (including the genus Stagmatoptera )
Stagmomantinae
Vatinae

In some classifications, some of the subfamilies included in Mantidae are distinguished into separate families ^[11] ^[12] , for example:

Iridopterygidae
Sibyllidae
Tarachodidae
Thespidae
Toxoderidae

Notes

↑ Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin 2 : 517.
↑ Pravdin F.N. Order Mantis (Mantoptera, or Mantodea) // Life of animals. Volume 3. Arthropods: trilobites, chelicerae, tracheal breathing. Onychophors / ed. M.S. Gilyarova , F.N. Pravdina, Ch. ed. V. E. Sokolov . - 2nd ed. - M.: Education, 1984. - S. 165. - 463 p.
↑ An annotated list of rare and endangered species of invertebrate animals, especially protected within Russia // 2003 * Russia * Red list of specially protected rare and endangered animals and plants. (2nd edition). Part 2. Invertebrate animals (Red Book Bulletin, 2/2004 (2008)) / rev. ed. V.E. Prisyazhnyuk. - M .: Laboratory of the Red Book of the All-Russian Research Institute of Nature Conservation , 2004 (2008). - S. 124. - 512 p. - ISBN 978-5-9243-0158-7 Full text
↑ Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000. - S. 11. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .
↑ ¹ ² Praying mantis catalog - insects.tamu.edu .
↑ Identification Keys (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 18, 2011. Archived March 17, 2011.
↑ Key to Preying Mantids
↑ Mantis Egg Sac
↑ Mantidae - mantodea.speciesfile.org
↑ Mantidae on the Fauna Europaea website .
↑ Ehrmann R. 2002. Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier, Münster
↑ Svenson GJ and Whiting MF 2004. Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator. Systematic Entomology 29 (3): 342-352.

Literature

Beier M. 1935. Mantodea: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Mantinae. Genera Insectorum 203: 1-146.
Rehn JAG 1935. The Orthoptera of Costa Rica. Part I. Mantidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87 : 167–272.
Rivera J. 2010. A historical review of praying mantid taxonomy and systematics in the Neotropical Region: State of knowledge and recent advances (Insecta: Mantodea). Zootaxa 2638 : 44-64. Preview

Links

[Burmeister-1] Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin 2 : 517.

[2] Pravdin F.N. Order Mantis (Mantoptera, or Mantodea) // Life of animals. Volume 3. Arthropods: trilobites, chelicerae, tracheal breathing. Onychophors / ed. M.S. Gilyarova , F.N. Pravdina, Ch. ed. V. E. Sokolov . - 2nd ed. - M.: Education, 1984. - S. 165. - 463 p.

[3] An annotated list of rare and endangered species of invertebrate animals, especially protected within Russia // 2003 * Russia * Red list of specially protected rare and endangered animals and plants. (2nd edition). Part 2. Invertebrate animals (Red Book Bulletin, 2/2004 (2008)) / rev. ed. V.E. Prisyazhnyuk. - M .: Laboratory of the Red Book of the All-Russian Research Institute of Nature Conservation , 2004 (2008). - S. 124. - 512 p. - ISBN 978-5-9243-0158-7 Full text

[zaharov-4] Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000. - S. 11. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .

[tamu-5] ¹ ² Praying mantis catalog - insects.tamu.edu .

[6] Identification Keys (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 18, 2011. Archived March 17, 2011.

[earthlife-7] Key to Preying Mantids

[nilesbio-8] Mantis Egg Sac

[speciesfile-9] Mantidae - mantodea.speciesfile.org

[10] Mantidae on the Fauna Europaea website .

[11] Ehrmann R. 2002. Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt. Natur und Tier, Münster

[12] Svenson GJ and Whiting MF 2004. Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator. Systematic Entomology 29 (3): 342-352.