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genus Mantis Linne, 1758

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (64):
  • Linne. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 425 >> Note: Gryllus (Mantis) >> Gryllus (Mantis)    urn:lsid:Mantodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4045
  • Linne. 1764. Mus. Ludov. Ulr. 105 >> Note: Gryllus (Mantis)
  • Linne. 1767. Syst. Nat. (ed. 2) 1(2):689 >> Note: Hemiptera
  • Fabricius. 1775. Syst. Ent. 2:274 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Fabricius. 1781. Spec. Ins. 1:345 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Thunberg. 1784. Nov. Ins. Spec. 60
  • Fabricius. 1787. Mant. Ins. 1:227 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Gmelin. 1790. Syst. Nat. (ed. 3) 1(4):2048 >> Note: Hemiptera
  • Olivier. 1792. Enc. Meth., Ins. 7:619
  • Fabricius. 1793. Ent. Syst. 2:12 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Fabricius. 1798. Ent. Syst., suppl. 183, 190 >> Note: Ulonata
  • Latreille. 1802. Hist. nat. Crust. Ins. 3:273 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Lichtenstein. 1802. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 6:18 >> Note: Mantes
  • Latreille. 1804. Hist. Crust. Ins., Latreille 12:105 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Palisot de Beauvois. 1805. Ins. Afr. Amer. Orth. 60
  • Latreille. 1807. Gen. Crust. Ins. 3:91 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Serville. 1831. Annls Sci. nat. 22:51 >> Note: Mantides
  • Brulle. 1835. Hist. nat. Ins. 9:71 >> Note: Mantiens (famly)
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:530 >> Note: Mantidae (sbfam)
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handb. Ent., Burm. 2:535 >> Note: Mantis (MANTIS)
  • Serville. 1839. Hist. Ins. Orth. 174 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Blanchard. 1840. Hist. Anim. artic. 3:11 >> Note: Mantiens, Lefebvre
  • Blanchard. 1840. Hist. Anim. artic. 3:12 >> Note: Mantis (MANTIS)
  • Fischer de Waldheim. 1846. Entomographie Russ. 4:99 >> Note: Mantides (famly)
  • Fischer. 1853. Orthop. Europ. 123 >> Note: Mantodea (famly)
  • Saussure. 1859. Revue Mag. Zool. 2 11:59 >> Note: Mantidae
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:57, 68 >> Note: Mantis (MANTIS)
  • Saussure. 1869. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 3:57, 68 >> Note: Mantites
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:236 >> Note: Mantites (legio)
  • Saussure. 1871. Mem. Soc. Hist. nat. Geneve 21:411
  • Stal. 1871. Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh. Stockh. 28(3):399 >> Note: Mantina (sbfam)
  • Bolivar. 1876. Sin. Orth. Espana 57 >> Note: Mantinos (tribe)
  • Stal. 1877. Bih. K. svenska VetensAkad. Handl. 4(10):38 >> Note: Mantidae (sbfam)
  • Brunner v. W. 1882. Prodr. Eur. Orth. 58 >> Note: Mantidae (tribe)
  • Westwood. 1889. Revis. Mant. 10 >> Note: Mantides
  • Kirby. 1890. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 6:566
  • Brunner v. W. 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 2 13(33):62 >> Note: Mantides
  • Finot. 1895. Annls Soc. ent. Fr. 64:100 >> Note: Mantidae (tribe)
  • Saussure & Zehntner. 1895. Hist. Madag. 23:201 >> Note: Mantiens (tribe)
  • Bolivar. 1898. Cat. Sinop. Orth. Iber. 22 >> Note: Mantidos
  • Rehn. 1901. Can. Ent. 33:119
  • Tumpel. 1901. Geradfl. Mitteleurop. 235 >> Note: Mantodea
  • Rehn. 1903. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1903:712 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Kirby. 1904. Syn. Cat. Orth. 1:249 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Jacobson & Bianki. 1905. Prem. i Lozhn. Ross. Imp. 150 >> Note: Mantidae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1912. Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 43:10 >> Note: Mantes
  • Chopard. 1922. Faune France 3:37 >> Note: Mantinae
  • Giglio-Tos. 1927. Tierreich 50:405 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantes (group)
  • Beier. 1935. Genera Insect. 203:91 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Chopard. 1943. Faune Emp. fr. 1:77 >> Note: Mantinae
  • Morales Agacino. 1947. Trab. est. Fitopat. Agr. Madrid (Ser. Fitopat.) 184:26 >> Note: Mantinae
  • Int. Comm. zool. Nom. 1954. Opinion 299
  • Paulian. 1957. Faune Madagascar 5:58 >> Note: Mantidae
  • Beier. 1964. Bronn’s Klass. Ordn. Tierreiches 5 3(6):948 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Roy. 1967. Bull. Inst. fond. Afr. noire A 29:127
  • Beier. 1968. Handb. Zool. 4((2) 2/12):10 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae: Mantini
  • Kaltenbach. 1976. Series Ent. 12:152 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Balderson. 1984. Austr. CSIRO Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. 23:9 >> Note: Mantidae: Mantinae
  • Kerzhner. 1991. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 48:113
  • Ragge. 1992. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 49:71
  • Soomro, N.M., M.H. Soomro & Wagan. 2001. Sindh Univ.Res.Jour.(Scr.Ser.) 33(1):23-26 >> Mantis
  • Ehrmann. 2002. Mantodea der Welt 215
  • Bolshakov, Shcherbakov, Mazurov, Alekseev, Ryabov & Ruchin. 2010. Eversmannia 23-24 >> Note: Mantis in European Russia >> Mantis
  • Berg, Schwarz & Mehl. 2011. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 521 pp >> Mantis
• Type species:  Gryllus religiosus Linne (= Mantis religiosa religiosa)
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Mantes Geoffroy, 1764
• species beieri Roy, 1999
• species callifera Wood-Mason, 1882
• species carinata Cosmovici, 1888
• species dilaticollis Gistel, 1856
• species emortualis Saussure, 1869
• species griveaudi Paulian, 1958
• species insignis Beier, 1954
• species macroalata Lindt, 1973
• subspecies fronticus Lindt, 1990
• subspecies humilis Lindt, 1990
• subspecies latiscutula Lindt, 1990
• subspecies longidorsa Lindt, 1990
• subspecies macroalata Lindt, 1973
• species macrocephala Lindt, 1974
• subspecies brevidorsa Lindt, 1976
• subspecies cama Lindt, 1976
• subspecies macrocephala Lindt, 1974
• subspecies polyphaga Lindt, 1976
• subspecies scanda Lindt, 1976
• species octospilota Westwood, 1889
• species pia Serville, 1839
• species religiosa (Linne, 1758)
• subspecies beybienkoi Bazyluk, 1960
• subspecies caucasica Lindt, 1974
• subspecies eichleri Bazyluk, 1960
• subspecies inornata Werner, 1930
• subspecies langoalata Lindt, 1974
• subspecies latinota Lindt, 1974
• subspecies macedonica Karaman, 1961
• subspecies major Gerstaecker, 1873
• subspecies polonica Bazyluk, 1960
• subspecies religiosa (Linne, 1758)
• subspecies siedleckii Bazyluk, 1960
• subspecies sinica Bazyluk, 1960
• species splendida de Haan, 1842
• species tricolor Linne, 1767
• synonym cubitata Goeze, 1778
• synonym ocellata Olivier, 1792
• synonym subfoliata Stoll, 1813

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