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Vespamantoida
''Vespamantoida'' is a genus of praying mantises in the family Mantoididae. The genus was erected in 2019 and the name was derived from the Latin word ''vespa'' which means wasp and ''Mantoida'' referring to the mantis Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha .... These mantis resemble and mimic the behavior of a wasp. Species There are two species of mantises in this genus: * '' Vespamantoida toulgoeti'' * '' Vespamantoida wherleyi'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q85813027 Mantoididae Mantodea genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantoididae
''Mantoididae'' is a family of praying mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America. The family was formerly represented by the sole genus '' Mantoida'', until the genus ''Paramantoida'' was described in 2014 and '' Vespamantoida'' in 2019. The family differs from the closely related Chaeteessidae in having an apical claw on the fore tibiae which are also less curved. Males have ocelli and a cylindrical body shape, unlike the dorsoventrally flattened Chaeteessidae. The cerci are also shorter. Genera The following genera are placed in the family Mantoididae: *'' Mantoida'' - 11 species, *'' Paramantoida'' - 1 species '' Paramantoida amazonica'', typically dark colored with white spots resembling certain wasps *'' Vespamantoida'' - 2 species'','' resemble some ichneumonid wasps *†'' Pseudomantoida'' Schubnel and Nel 2019 Oise amber, France, Eocene (Ypresian In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vespamantoida Toulgoeti
''Vespamantoida'' is a genus of praying mantises in the family Mantoididae. The genus was erected in 2019 and the name was derived from the Latin word ''vespa'' which means wasp and ''Mantoida'' referring to the mantis Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha .... These mantis resemble and mimic the behavior of a wasp. Species There are two species of mantises in this genus: * '' Vespamantoida toulgoeti'' * '' Vespamantoida wherleyi'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q85813027 Mantoididae Mantodea genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vespamantoida Wherleyi
''Vespamantoida wherleyi'' is a species of praying mantis that mimics a wasp. It was discovered in 2013 at a research station near the Amazon River in northern Peru. The discovery resulted in erecting a new genus, ''Vespamantoida''. This mantis has a red/orange colored body and black pattern. Besides the coloration, it has the body shape of and displayed walking and antenna movements similar to a wasp. This mantis is closely related to Mantoida toulgoeti as both species have a distinct foreleg synapomorphy In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy). A synapomorphy is an apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is therefore hypothesized to have .... * References Mantoididae Biota of Peru Insects described in 2019 {{Mantodea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects ( Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other more distantly related insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as bees and ants are deeply nested within the wasps, having evolved from wasp ancestors. Wasps that are members of the clade Aculeata can Stinger, sting their prey. The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are Eusociality, eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex-determination system, sex determination in Hymenoptera, as it makes sisters exceptionally closely related to each other. However, the majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
