mantidae , auch: mantids

Most of the species are in the family Mantidae.

The name mantid refers only to members of the family Mantidae.

Apteromantis is a genus of insect in the family Mantidae.

Mantidae three meters tall - eighteen feet.

Mantinae is a subfamily of mantis of the family Mantidae.

Brunneria is a genus of praying mantises in Family Mantidae.

The jugum is more highly developed in some other Orthoptera, as in the Mantidae.

Technically, however, "mantid" refers only to members of the Mantidae family, and not the 14 remaining families of mantises.

Iridopterygidae is a family of mantis in the order Mantodea, whose members were formerly a subfamily within Mantidae.

Ceratocrania macra is part of the monotypic genus Ceratocrania, and the family Mantidae.

Litaneutria is genus of praying mantises in the family Mantidae represented by species of Ground Mantis.

Miomantis caffra, a new mantid record (Mantodea: Mantidae) for New Zealand.

Callimantis is a genus of mantis of the family Mantidae consisting of only one species, Callimantis antillarum.

The name Mantis and the logo of the project refer to the Mantidae family of insects, known for the tracking of and feeding on other insects, colloquially referred to as "bugs".

Thus in the Gryllotalpidae, the Scarabaeidae and some others the fore legs are modified for burrowing, and in the Mantidae, Phymatidae and Mantispidae for seizing and holding the prey.

It was first described in "On some African Mantidae and Phasmidae in the Collection of the Deutschen Entomologischen Museum" in Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin in 1912.

Pnigomantis medioconstricta common name Indonesian Double Shield Mantis or Double Shield Mantis are the only species in the genus Pnigomantis of mantis of the family Mantidae.