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Mantis (genus)

Mantis
NKN-2007-08-18 081042 praying mantis (Yvan Leduc author for Wikipedia).jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Genus: Mantis
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

The genus Mantis is in the family Mantidae, of the mantis order Mantodea.

Some of its species have the common name "praying mantis."

Mantis is a small genus of mantises, which includes 9 species (others are synonyms):


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