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Mantis
The genus Mantis is in the family Mantidae, of the mantis order Mantodea. Members of this genus can be found in Asia, Africa, Australia, and recently one species has been introduced to North America.
Some of its species have the common name "praying mantis".
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
European Mantis
speciesMantis religiosa
Eight-spot Mantis
speciesMantis octospilota
Mantis beieri
speciesMantis beieri
Mantis callifera
speciesMantis callifera
Mantis carinata
speciesMantis carinata
Mantis dilaticollis
speciesMantis dilaticollis
Mantis macroalata
speciesMantis macroalata
Mantis pia
speciesMantis pia
Mantis splendida
speciesMantis splendida
Mantis insignis
speciesMantis insignis
Mantis griveaudi
speciesMantis griveaudi
Mantis macrocephala
speciesMantis macrocephala
Mantis emortualis
speciesMantis emortualis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Maria Sibylla Merian — Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (1719)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1719 · p.215
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.409
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.405
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.399
Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De animalibus insectis libri septem
Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1618 · p.174
Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.134
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.318
Books on Marine Fishes
Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.572
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.280
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.588
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.115
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.74
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Mantis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56564.