Manticora (beetle)
''Manticora'' (often misspelled ''Mantichora'' (Latin term for "manticore") following an unjustified spelling change in 1837) is a genus of tiger beetles that is endemic to Africa. Its members are the largest of the family. All species are darkly colored and flightless. Males usually have exaggerated mandibles compared to the females, used for clasping during copulation. Taxonomy This genus was among the first formally described by a pupil of Carl Linnaeus, Johan Christian Fabricius, in 1781. The name ''Manticora'' comes from the ancient Persian for the legendary man-eating manticore. The first species of ''Manticora'' described was '' M. tuberculata'', originally described by Charles De Geer in 1778 in the Linnean genus ''Carabus'', to which it is only distantly related as presently defined. When Fabricius established ''Manticora'' he designated the species ''Manticora maxillosa'', a junior synonym of ''M. tuberculata'', as the type species. Subsequently, numerous authors have ...
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Manticora Scabra
''Manticora scabra'' is a species of tiger beetle native to Mozambique, Transvaal and Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam .... Conservation ''M. scabra'' beetles, as well as other species in the same genus, are known to be widely collected for the pet and collection trade, which may negatively affect the wild population. As of 2010, ''M. scabra'' is not considered vulnerable in South Africa References External links''Manticora scabra'' at Beetles of Africa* * Cicindelidae Beetles described in 1849 Taxa named by Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug Beetles of Africa Insects of Southern Africa Insects of Mozambique Insects of South Africa Insects of Zimbabwe {{Cicindelidae-stub ...
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Manticora Mygaloides
Manticora may refer to: * ''Manticora'' (beetle), a genus of tiger beetles **''Manticora latipennis'', a species of tiger beetle native to South Africa **''Manticora scabra'', a species of tiger beetle native to Mozambique and Zimbabwe *Manticora (band), a heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark *''La manticora'', a 1974 novel by Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco See also *Manticore (other) *Maticora ''Calliophis'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes. Species Species in this genus are: * ''Calliophis beddomei'' (Malcolm Arthur Smith, M.A. Smith, 1 ...

Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ...
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Manticore
The manticore or mantichore (Latin: ''mantichōra''; reconstructed Old Persian: ; Modern fa, مردخوار ) is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx that proliferated in western European medieval art as well. It has the head of a human, the body of a lion and a tail of venomous spines similar to porcupine quills, while other depictions have it with the tail of a scorpion. There are some accounts that the spines can be shot like arrows, thus making the manticore a lethal predator. Name The term "manticore" descends via Latin ''mantichora'' from Ancient Greek （martikhórās)Cf. This in turn is a transliteration of an Old Persian compound word consisting of ''martīya'' 'man' and ''xuar-'' stem, 'to eat' (Mod. fa, ; ''mard'' + ; ''khurden''). The ultimate source of manticore was Ctesias, Greek physician of the Persian court during the Achaemenid dynasty, and is based on the testamants of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India. Ctes ...
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Dick Sand, A Captain At Fifteen
''Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen'' (french: Un capitaine de quinze ans) is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations were made, two Soviet and one Franco-Spanish. Plot Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner ''Pilgrim'', a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time, the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home, four people request passage to Valparaiso: Mrs. Weldon, the wife of the hunting firm's owner; her five-year-old son, Jack; his old nanny, Nan; and her cousin, Bénédict, an entomologist. Without much of a choice, the captain accepts. Several days into their journey northeast, the ''Pilgrim'' encounters a shipwreck, with only five African-American survivors (Tom, Actéon, Austin, Bat, and Hercules), plus a dog (Dingo), all of whom are brought ...
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'', a series of bestselling adventure novels including ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864), ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870), and '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where ...
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Scythe
A scythe ( ) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing. The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia. Reapers are bladed machines that automate the cutting of the scythe, and sometimes subsequent steps in preparing the grain or the straw or hay. The word "scythe" derives from Old English ''siðe''. In Middle English and later, it was usually spelt ''sithe'' or ''sythe''. However, in the 15th century some writers began to use the ''sc-'' spelling as they thought (wrongly) the word was related to the Latin ''scindere'' (meaning "to cut"). Nevertheless, the ''sithe'' spelling lingered and notably appears in Noah Webster's dictionaries. A scythe consists of a shaft about long called a ''snaith'', ''snath'', ''snathe'' or ''sned'', traditionally made of wood but now sometimes me ...
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Manticora Werneri
Manticora may refer to: * ''Manticora'' (beetle), a genus of tiger beetles **''Manticora latipennis'', a species of tiger beetle native to South Africa **''Manticora scabra'', a species of tiger beetle native to Mozambique and Zimbabwe *Manticora (band), a heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark *''La manticora'', a 1974 novel by Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco See also *Manticore (other) *Maticora ''Calliophis'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes. Species Species in this genus are: * ''Calliophis beddomei'' (Malcolm Arthur Smith, M.A. Smith, 1 ...

Manticora Tyrannus
Manticora may refer to: * ''Manticora'' (beetle), a genus of tiger beetles **''Manticora latipennis'', a species of tiger beetle native to South Africa **''Manticora scabra'', a species of tiger beetle native to Mozambique and Zimbabwe *Manticora (band), a heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark *''La manticora'', a 1974 novel by Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco See also *Manticore (other) *Maticora ''Calliophis'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes. Species Species in this genus are: * ''Calliophis beddomei'' (Malcolm Arthur Smith, M.A. Smith, 1 ...

Manticora Tibialis
Manticora may refer to: * ''Manticora'' (beetle), a genus of tiger beetles **''Manticora latipennis'', a species of tiger beetle native to South Africa **''Manticora scabra'', a species of tiger beetle native to Mozambique and Zimbabwe *Manticora (band), a heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark *''La manticora'', a 1974 novel by Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco See also *Manticore (other) *Maticora ''Calliophis'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes. Species Species in this genus are: * ''Calliophis beddomei'' (Malcolm Arthur Smith, M.A. Smith, 1 ...