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Praying Mantis

NEOPTERA - DICTYOPTERA - MANTODEA
This room displays photos of Praying Mantis (Mantids) and their relatives.

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Narrow-winged Mantis(baby), Choosen Kamakiri or Tenodera angustipennis <Mantidae>. photo: 05/2000, Tokyo, Japan. Unidentified Mantis or Tenodera sp. <Mantidae>. photo: 06/2002, Tokyo, Japan.
 Unidentified Mantis or Tenodera sp. <Mantidae>. photo: 06/2002, Tokyo, Japan.

Unidentified Mantis [1][2][3] <Mantidae>. photo: 08/2004, Brownsberg, Suriname.
 Unidentified Praying Mantis [1][2], or Tenodera sp. <Mantidae>. photo: 05/2005, Tokyo, Japan. A Praying Mantis [1][2] , Harabiro Kamakiri or Hierodula patellifera <Mantidae> probably. photo: 06/2005, Huisun Forest Station, Taiwan.

Unidentified Praying Mantis <Mantidae>. photo: 06/2005, Huisun Forest Station, Taiwan. Unidentified Praying Mantis [1][2][3] <Mantidae>, or Tenodera sp. photo: 07/2005, Tokyo, Japan. Unidentified Praying Mantis [1][2][3] <Mantidae>, or Tenodera sp. photo: 10/2005, Tokyo, Japan.

A Praying Mantis [1], Ko Kamakiri or Statilla maculata <Mantidae>. photo: 10/2005, Tokyo, Japan. A Praying Mantis [1][2], Oo Kamakiri or Tenodera aridifolla < Mantidae>. photo: 11/2005, Tokyo, Japan.
 Unidentified Praying Mantis [1][2][3] <Mantidae>, or Tenodera sp. photo: 11/2005, Tokyo, Japan.

A Praying Mantis [2], Ko Kamakiri or Statilla maculata <Mantidae>. photo: 11/2005, Tokyo, Japan. Unidentified Praying Mantis <Mantidae>. photo: 08/2007, Loango NP, Gabon. Unidentified Praying Mantis <Mantidae>. photo: 08/2007, Ivindo NP, Gabon.

Unidentified Praying Mantis <Mantidae>. photo: 08/2007, Ivindo NP, Gabon. back to upper category


exhibition rooms in this sector :

hymenoptera : sawflies | bees and digger wasps | ants | hornets | ichneumon wasps | other wasps
lepidoptera : inchworm moths || noctuid moths || hawk-moths || snout moths || other moths || swallowtails || whites || blues | riodinids || tigers & crows | palmflies & palm kings | morphos & evening browns | ringlets & treebrowns | Biblidinae | admirals & emperors | pansies & oak leaves | heliconiinae | sailers & gliders | other nymphalids || skippers || unidentified lepidopterans
diptera : true flies | mosquitoes and crane flies
coleoptera : ground beetles | scarabs | click beetles | lady beetles | leaf beetles | weevils | others
hemiptera : aphids & scales || cicadas & leafhoppers || aquatic bugs | assassin bugs | stink bugs
orthoptera : crickets | grasshoppers
dictyoptera : praying mantis | cockroaches | termites
odonata : dragonflies | damselflies
other group : other insects

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