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Mantis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous – Recent
Mantis religiosa
, Romania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Burmeister, 1838
Families

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Synonyms
  • Manteodea Burmeister, 1829
  • Mantearia
  • Mantoptera

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

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 species are found actively pursuing their prey. They normally live for about a year. In cooler climates, the adults lay eggs in autumn, then die. The eggs are protected by their hard capsules and hatch in the spring. Females sometimes practice sexual cannibalism
, eating their mates after copulation.

Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations, including ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and Assyria. A cultural trope popular in cartoons imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.

Taxonomy and evolution

Over 2,400 species of mantis in about 430 genera are recognized.

Mantis religiosa), comes from the typical "prayer-like" posture with folded forelimbs.[9][10] The vernacular plural "mantises" (used in this article) was confined largely to the US, with "mantids" predominantly used as the plural in the UK and elsewhere, until the family Mantidae was further split in 2002.[11][12]

Phylogeny

External

Evolutionary relationships based on Evangelista et al. 2019 are shown in the cladogram:[13]

Dictyoptera
Mantodea

(Mantises)

Blattodea

(Cockroaches and termites)

Internal

One of the earliest classifications splitting an all-inclusive Mantidae into multiple families was that proposed by Beier in 1968, recognizing eight families,

polyphyletic,[16] so the Mantodea have been revised substantially as of 2019 and now includes 29 families.[17]

Cladogram of
extant Mantodea families[18][17]
Mantodea

† Extinct Genera

Eumantodea
Chaeteessoidea

Chaeteessidae

Spinomantodea
Mantoidoidea

Mantoididae

Schizomantodea
Metallyticoidea

Metallyticidae

Artimantodea
Amerimantodea
Thespoidea

Thespidae

Acanthopoidea

Angelidae

Coptopterygidae

Liturgusidae

Photinaidae

Acanthopidae

Cernomantodea
Nanomantodea
Chroicopteroidea

Chroicopteridae

Nanomantoidea

Leptomantellidae

Amorphoscelidae

Nanomantidae

Metamantodea
Gonypetoidea

Gonypetidae

Lobipedia
Epaphroditoidea

Epaphroditidae

Majangidae

Mantimorpha
Haanioidea

Haaniidae

Heteromantodea
Eremiaphiloidea

Rivetinidae

Amelidae

Eremiaphilidae

Toxoderidae

Pareumantodea
Hoplocoryphoidea

Hoplocoryphidae

Calomantodea
Miomantoidea

Miomantidae

Promantidea
Galinthiadoidea

Galinthiadidae

Mantidea
Hymenopodoidea

Empusidae

Hymenopodidae

Mantoidea

Dactylopterygidae

Deroplatyidae

Mantidae

Fossil mantises

Life restoration of Santanmantis, a primitive fossil mantis known from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil, and one of the oldest members of the group

Mantises are thought to have evolved from cockroach-like ancestors.

X-ray computed tomography.[16]
Extinct families and genera include:

Similar insects in the Neuroptera

Because of the superficially similar

forelegs, mantidflies may be confused with mantises, though they are unrelated. Their similarity is an example of convergent evolution; mantidflies do not have tegmina (leathery forewings) like mantises, their antennae are shorter and less thread-like, and the raptorial tibia is more muscular than that of a similar-sized mantis and bends back farther in preparation for shooting out to grasp prey.[22]

Biology

Anatomy

Mantis wings, the forewing leathery, the hindwing triangular
Wing arrangement of a typical mantis, adult male Raptrix perspicua
Raptorial foreleg of a mantis, armed with long spines
The raptorial foreleg, showing the unusually long coxa, which, together with the trochanter, gives the impression of a femur. The femur itself is the proximal segment of the grasping part of the leg.
Mantis moving on a wall.

Mantises have large, triangular heads with a beak-like snout and

compound eyes, three small simple eyes, and a pair of antennae. The articulation of the neck is also remarkably flexible; some species of mantis can rotate their heads nearly 180°.[10]
The mantis thorax consists of a prothorax, a mesothorax, and a metathorax. In all species apart from the genus Mantoida, the prothorax, which bears the head and forelegs, is much longer than the other two thoracic segments. The prothorax is also flexibly articulated, allowing for a wide range of movements of the head and fore limbs while the remainder of the body remains more or less immobile.[23][24] Mantises also are unique to the Dictyoptera in that they have tympanate hearing, with two tympana in an auditory chamber in their metathorax. Most mantises can only hear ultrasound.[25]

Mantises have two spiked, grasping forelegs ("raptorial legs") in which prey items are caught and held securely. In most insect legs, including the posterior four legs of a mantis, the

arolium.[23][26]

Mantises can be loosely categorized as being macropterous (long-winged), brachypterous (short-winged), micropterous (vestigial-winged), or apterous (wingless). If not wingless, a mantis has two sets of wings: the outer wings, or tegmina, are usually narrow and leathery. They function as camouflage and as a shield for the hindwings, which are clearer and more delicate.[23][27] The abdomen of all mantises consists of 10 tergites, with a corresponding set of nine sternites visible in males and seven visible in females. The abdomen tends to be slimmer in males than females, but ends in a pair of cerci in both sexes.[23]

Vision

Head of a mantis with large compound eyes and labrum
Head of Archimantis latistyla, showing the compound eyes and labrum

Mantises have

incident light, while those to the side reflect it.[33]

As their hunting relies heavily on vision, mantises are primarily diurnal. Many species, however, fly at night, and then may be attracted to artificial lights. They have good night vision.[34] Mantises in the family Liturgusidae collected at night have been shown to be predominately males;[35] this is probably true for most mantises. Nocturnal flight is especially important to males in locating less-mobile females by detecting their pheromones. Flying at night exposes mantises to fewer bird predators than diurnal flight would. Many mantises also have an auditory thoracic organ that helps them avoid bats by detecting their echolocation calls and responding evasively.[36][37]

Diet and hunting

Tenodera sinensis feeding on a cricket
Tenodera sinensis
consuming a smaller immature mantis.

Mantises are generalist

predators of arthropods.[2] The majority of mantises are ambush predators that only feed upon live prey within their reach. They either camouflage themselves and remain stationary, waiting for prey to approach, or stalk their prey with slow, stealthy movements.[38] Larger mantises sometimes eat smaller individuals of their own species,[39] as well as small vertebrates such as lizards, frogs, fish, and particularly small birds.[40][41][42]

Most mantises stalk tempting prey if it strays close enough, and will go further when they are especially hungry.[43] Once within reach, mantises strike rapidly to grasp the prey with their spiked raptorial forelegs.[44] Some ground and bark species pursue their prey in a more active way. For example, members of a few genera such as the ground mantises Entella, Ligaria, and Ligariella run over dry ground seeking prey, much as tiger beetles do.[23]

The fore gut of some species extends the whole length of the insect and can be used to store prey for digestion later. This may be advantageous in an insect that feeds intermittently.[45] Chinese mantises live longer, grow faster, and produce more young when they are able to eat pollen.[46]

Antipredator adaptations

Mantises are preyed on by vertebrates such as frogs, lizards, and birds, and by invertebrates such as spiders, large species of hornets, and ants.[47] Some hunting wasps, such as some species of Tachytes also paralyze some species of mantis to feed their young.[48] Generally, mantises protect themselves by camouflage, most species being cryptically colored to resemble foliage or other backgrounds, both to avoid predators and to better snare their prey.[49] Those that live on uniformly colored surfaces such as bare earth or tree bark are dorsoventrally flattened so as to eliminate shadows that might reveal their presence.[50] The species from different families called flower mantises are aggressive mimics: they resemble flowers convincingly enough to attract prey that come to collect pollen and nectar.[51][52][53] Some species in Africa and Australia are able to turn black after a molt towards the end of the dry season; at this time of year, bush fires occur and this coloration enables them to blend in with the fire-ravaged landscape (fire melanism).[50]

Aggressive mimicry: Malaysian orchid mantises are camouflaged pink or yellow, matching the coloration of local orchids.
Praying mantises exhibiting motion camouflage

When directly threatened, many mantis species stand tall and spread their forelegs, with their wings fanning out wide. The fanning of the wings makes the mantis seem larger and more threatening, with some species enhancing this effect with bright colors and patterns on their hindwings and inner surfaces of their front legs. If harassment persists, a mantis may strike with its forelegs and attempt to pinch or bite. As part of the bluffing (

threat display, some species may also produce a hissing sound by expelling air from the abdominal spiracles. Mantises lack chemical protection, so their displays are largely bluff. When flying at night, at least some mantises are able to detect the echolocation sounds produced by bats; when the frequency begins to increase rapidly, indicating an approaching bat, they stop flying horizontally and begin a descending spiral toward the safety of the ground, often preceded by an aerial loop or spin. If caught, they may slash captors with their raptorial legs.[50][54][55]

Mantises, like

Loxomantis, Orthodera, and Statilia, like many other arthropods, avoid attacking them. A variety of arthropods, including some early-instar mantises, exploit this behavior and mimic ants to evade their predators.[57]

  • Leaf mimicry: Choeradodis has leaf-like forewings and a widened green thorax.
    Leaf
    thorax
    .
  • Adult female Iris oratoria performs a bluffing threat display, rearing back with the forelegs and wings spread and mouth opened.
    Adult female
    threat display
    , rearing back with the forelegs and wings spread and mouth opened.
  • The jeweled flower mantis, Creobroter gemmatus: the brightly colored wings are opened suddenly in a deimatic display to startle predators.
    The jeweled flower mantis,
    deimatic display
    to startle predators.
  • Some mantis nymphs mimic ants to avoid predators.

Reproduction and life history

Praying mantis nymphs emerging from their ootheca.

The mating season in temperate climates typically takes place in autumn,[58][59] while in tropical areas, mating can occur at any time of the year.[59] To mate following courtship, the male usually leaps onto the female's back, clasping her thorax and wing bases with his forelegs. He then arches his abdomen to deposit and store sperm in a special chamber near the tip of the female's abdomen. The female lays between 10 and 400 eggs, depending on the species. Eggs are typically deposited in a froth mass-produced by glands in the abdomen. This froth hardens, creating a protective capsule, which together with the egg mass is called an ootheca. Depending on the species, the ootheca can be attached to a flat surface, wrapped around a plant, or even deposited in the ground.[58] Despite the versatility and durability of the eggs, they are often preyed on, especially by several species of parasitoid wasps. In a few species, mostly ground and bark mantises in the family Tarachodidae, the mother guards the eggs.[58] The cryptic Tarachodes maurus positions herself on bark with her abdomen covering her egg capsule, ambushing passing prey and moving very little until the eggs hatch.[4] An unusual reproductive strategy is adopted by Brunner's stick mantis from the southern United States: no males have ever been found in this species, and the females breed parthenogenetically.[2] The ability to reproduce by parthenogenesis has been recorded in at least two other species, Sphodromantis viridis and Miomantis sp., although these species usually reproduce sexually.[60][61][62] In temperate climates, adults do not survive the winter and the eggs undergo a diapause, hatching in the spring.[5]

As in closely related insect groups in the superorder Dictyoptera, mantises go through three life stages: egg, nymph, and adult (mantises are among the hemimetabolous insects). For smaller species, the eggs may hatch in 3–4 weeks as opposed to 4–6 weeks for larger species. The nymphs may be colored differently from the adult, and the early stages are often mimics of ants. A mantis nymph grows bigger as it molts its exoskeleton. Molting can happen five to 10 times before the adult stage is reached, depending on the species. After the final molt, most species have wings, though some species remain wingless or brachypterous ("short-winged"), particularly in the female sex. The lifespan of a mantis depends on the species; smaller ones may live 4–8 weeks, while larger species may live 4–6 months.[2][24]

  • Mantis religiosa mating (brown male, green female)
    Mantis religiosa
    mating (brown male, green female)
  • Stagmomantis carolina laying ootheca
    Stagmomantis carolina laying ootheca
  • Recently laid M. religiosa ootheca
    Recently laid M. religiosa ootheca
  • Hatching from the ootheca
    Hatching from the ootheca
  • Sphodromantis lineola molting

Sexual cannibalism

Sexual cannibalism in Mantis religiosa

Sexual cannibalism is common among most predatory species of mantises in captivity. It has sometimes been observed in natural populations, where about a quarter of male–female encounters result in the male being eaten by the female.

Tenodera sinensis, 83% of males escape cannibalism after an encounter with a female, but since multiple matings occur, the probability of a male's being eaten increases cumulatively.[64]

The female may begin feeding by biting off the male's head (as they do with regular prey), and if mating has begun, the male's movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperm. Early researchers thought that because copulatory movement is controlled by a ganglion in the abdomen, not the head, removal of the male's head was a reproductive strategy by females to enhance fertilization while obtaining sustenance. Later, this behavior appeared to be an artifact of intrusive laboratory observation. Whether the behavior is natural in the field or also the result of distractions caused by the human observer remains controversial. Mantises are highly visual organisms and notice any disturbance in the laboratory or field, such as bright lights or moving scientists. Chinese mantises that had been fed ad libitum (so that they were not hungry) actually displayed elaborate courtship behavior when left undisturbed. The male engages the female in a courtship dance, to change her interest from feeding to mating.[68] Under such circumstances, the female has been known to respond with a defensive deimatic display by flashing the colored eyespots on the inside of her front legs.[69]

The reason for sexual cannibalism has been debated; experiments show that females on poor diets are likelier to engage in sexual cannibalism than those on good diets.[70] Some hypothesize that submissive males gain a selective advantage by producing offspring; this is supported by a quantifiable increase in the duration of copulation among males which are cannibalized, in some cases doubling both the duration and the chance of fertilization. This is contrasted by a study where males were seen to approach hungry females with more caution, and were shown to remain mounted on hungry females for a longer time, indicating that males that actively avoid cannibalism may mate with multiple females. The same study also found that hungry females generally attracted fewer males than those that were well fed.[71] The act of dismounting after copulation is dangerous for males, for it is the time that females most frequently cannibalize their mates. An increase in mounting duration appears to indicate that males wait for an opportune time to dismount a hungry female, who would be likely to cannibalize her mate.[69] Experiments have revealed that the sex ratio in an environment determines male copulatory behavior of Mantis religiosa which in turn affects the cannibalistic tendencies of the female and support the sperm competition hypothesis because the polyandrous treatment recorded the highest copulation duration time and lowest cannibalism. This further suggests that dismounting the female can make males susceptible to cannibalism.[72]

Relationship with humans

In culture, literature and art

Bronze ink brush rest in the shape of a mantis, Edo period, Japan, c. 1800

One of the earliest mantis references is in the ancient Chinese dictionary Erya, which gives its attributes in poetry, where it represents courage and fearlessness, and a brief description. A later text, the Jingshi Zhenglei Daguan Bencao ("Great History of Medical Material Annotated and Arranged by Types, Based upon the Classics and Historical Works") from 1108, gives accurate details of the construction of the egg packages, the development cycle, anatomy, and the function of the antennae. Although mantises are rarely mentioned in Ancient Greek sources, a female mantis in threat posture is accurately illustrated on a series of fifth-century BC silver coins, including didrachms, from Metapontum in Lucania.[73] In the 10th century AD,

Byzantine era Adages, Suidas describes an insect resembling a slow-moving green locust with long front legs.[74] He translates Zenobius 2.94 with the words seriphos (maybe a mantis) and graus, an old woman, implying a thin, dried-up stick of a body.[75]

Mantises are a common motif in Luna Polychrome ceramics of pre-Columbian Nicaragua, and are believed to represent a deity or spirit called "Madre Culebra".[76]

Western descriptions of the biology and morphology of the mantises became more accurate in the 18th century. Roesel von Rosenhof illustrated and described mantises and their cannibalistic behavior in the Insekten-Belustigungen (Insect Entertainments).[77]

The thin-legged mantis Gongylus gongylodes
In Island, Aldous Huxley reflected on death as a pair of Gongylus gongylodes mated.

In the early 1900s, people in the United States Ozarks region referred to them as Devil's horses.[78]

dénouement
, Durrell narrates:

he [Geronimo the gecko] crashed into the mantis and made her reel, and grabbed the underside of her thorax in his jaws. Cicely [the mantis] retaliated by snapping both her front legs shut on Geronimo's hindlegs. They rustled and staggered across the ceiling and down the wall, each seeking to gain some advantage.[79]

M. C. Escher's woodcut Dream depicts a human-sized mantis standing on a sleeping bishop.[80]

A cultural

Sundance Channel.[85][86]

monster film, with a giant mantis threatening mankind.[87]

Martial arts

Shaolin Temple, Shi DeRu and Shi DeYang, demonstrating the Southern Praying Mantis
style of martial art

Two martial arts separately developed in China have movements and fighting strategies based on those of the mantis.[88][89] As one of these arts was developed in northern China, and the other in southern parts of the country, the arts are today referred to (both in English and Chinese) as 'Northern Praying Mantis'[90] and 'Southern Praying Mantis'.[89] Both are very popular in China, and have also been exported to the West in recent decades.[89][90][91][92]

In mythology and religion

According to local beliefs in Africa, this insect brings good luck.

San in whose cultures man and nature were intertwined; for its praying posture, the mantis was even named Hottentotsgot ("god of the Hottentots") in the Afrikaans language that had developed among the first European settlers.[94] However, at least for the San, the mantis was only one of the manifestations of a trickster-deity, ǀKaggen, who could assume many other forms, such as a snake, hare or vulture.[95] Several ancient civilizations did consider the insect to have supernatural powers; for the Greeks, it had the ability to show lost travelers the way home; in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the "bird-fly" is a minor god that leads the souls of the dead to the underworld; in a list of 9th-century BC Nineveh grasshoppers (buru), the mantis is named necromancer (buru-enmeli) and soothsayer (buru-enmeli-ashaga).[77][96] Some pre-Columbian cultures in western Nicaragua have preserved oral traditions of the mantis as "Madre Culebra", a powerful predator and symbol of female symbolic authority.[76]

As pets

Gray adult female Carolina mantis in human hand

Mantises are among the insects most widely kept as pets.[97][98] Because the lifespan of a mantis is only about a year, people who want to keep mantises often breed them. In 2013 at least 31 species were kept and bred in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.[99] In 1996 at least 50 species were known to be kept in captivity by members of the Mantis Study Group.[100] The Independent described the "giant Asian praying mantis" as "part stick insect with a touch of Buddhist monk".[101]

For pest control

Naturally occurring mantis populations provide

plant pest control.[102] Gardeners who prefer to avoid pesticides may encourage mantises in the hope of controlling insect pests.[103] However, mantises do not have key attributes of biological pest control agents; they do not specialize in a single pest insect, and do not multiply rapidly in response to an increase in such a prey species, but are general predators. They therefore have "negligible value" in biological control.[103]

Two species, the Chinese mantis and the European mantis, were deliberately introduced to North America in the hope that they would serve as pest controls for agriculture; they have spread widely in both the United States and Canada.[104]

Robotics

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has produced a prototype robot inspired by the forelegs of the praying mantis, with front legs that allow the robot to walk, climb steps, and grasp objects. The multi-jointed leg provides dexterity via a rotatable joint. Future models may include a more spiked foreleg to improve the grip and ability to support more weight.[105]

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