No. of taxa found: 113, specimens: 605. | Filter your search by clicking selected family or country. | Help page | Go to list of taxa by order. |
Order | Family | Species | | Country | Individuals | Image | County/Province | Collection notes |
Dictyoptera | Mantidae | Achlaenella spp. |  | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (1)
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| | Amantis reticulata Haan,1842 | | Indonesia | 10 | | Java Mantidae Or.4 (10)
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| | Ameles abjecta Cyrillo,1787 | | Spain | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.2 (2)
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| | Ameles assoi Bolivar,1873 | | Spain | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.2 (2) as Parameles assoi
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| | Ameles cf. persa Bolivar,1911 | | Iran | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.3 (1)
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| | Ameles crassinervis Dirsch,1927 | | Afghanistan | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 4 (1) dried-out
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| | Ameles heldreichi Brunner von Wattenwyl,1882 | | Greece | 5 | | Mantidae Pal.1 (5)
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| | | | Turkey | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 3 (1)
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| | Ameles nana Charpentier,1825 | | Turkey | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.5 (2)
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| | Ameles spp. |  | Greece | 1 | | Rhodos Mantidae Pal.5 (1)
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| | |  | Greece | 2 | | Lesbos Mantidae Pal.5 (2)
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| | |  | Spain | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.5 (1)
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| | Asiadodis squilla Saussure,1869 | | Sri Lanka | 1 | | Mantidae Or.9 (1)
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| | Bisanthe lagrecai Kaltenbach,1996 | | South Africa | 1 | | Type Mantodea 4455 (1) Paratype 04459:2 of Bisanthe lagrecai Kaltenbach 1996
Bisanthe lagrecai Kaltenbach 1996
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| | Bisanthe menyharthi Brancsik,1895 | | Zambia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.5 (1)
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| | Bisanthe pulchripennis Stål,1876 | | Namibia | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.11 (2) incl. slide
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| | Bolbella punctigera Stål,1871 | | Unknown | 8 | | Mantidae Afr.11 (8)
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| | Bolivaria brachyptera Pallas,1773 | | Afghanistan | 4 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 5 (4)
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| | | | Turkey | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 3 (1)
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| | | | Turkey | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.2 (2)
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| | Camelomantis sondaica Werner,1921 | | Indonesia | 6 | | Java Mantidae Or.16 (6)
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| | Ceratocrania macra Westwood,1889 | | Indonesia | 3 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.5 (3)
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| | | | Indonesia | 2 | | Java Mantidae Or.5 (2)
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| | Chroicoptera saussurei Giglio-Tos,1915 | | Lesotho | 21 | | Mantidae Afr.12 (18) Afr.13 (3)
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| | | | South Africa | 8 | | Mantidae Afr.12 (3) Afr.13 (5)
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| | Cilnia humeralis Saussure,1871 | | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.13 (1)
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| | Compsomantis crassiceps de Haan,1842 | | Indonesia | 4 | | Java Mantidae Or.4 (4)
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| | Danuria affinis Giglio-Tos,1914 | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.1 (1)
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| | Danuria spp. |  | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.1 (1) nymph
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| | Deroplatys lobata Guerin-Meneville,1838 | | Indonesia | 11 | | Java Mantidae (11) Or.5+7
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| | Deroplatys moultoni Giglio-Tos,1917 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.5 (1)
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| | Deroplatys shelfordi Kirby,1903 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Java Mantidae Or.5 (1)
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| | Deroplatys truncata Guerin-Meneville,1843 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.5 (1)
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| | Dystacta alticeps Schaum,1852 | | Eswatini | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.13 (1) Afr.14 (1)
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| | | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (1)
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| | | | Namibia | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.13 (3)
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| | | | South Africa | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.13 (2) Afr.14 (1)
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| | | | Tanzania | 8 | | Mantidae Afr.2 (6) Afr.3 (2)
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| | | | Zambia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (1)
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| | | | Zimbabwe | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (2)
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| | Elmantis trincomaliae (Saussure,1869) | | Sri Lanka | 2 | | Mantidae Or.6 (2)
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| | Entella delalandei Saussure,1870 | | South Africa | 7 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (2) Afr.14 (5)
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| | Entella natalica Beier,1955 | | South Africa | 1 |  | Type Mantodea 4455 (1) Typus Holotype Syntype 04455:1 of Entella natalica Beier 1955
Entella natalica Beier 1955
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| | | | South Africa | 1 |  | Slide Type Slide (1) Gen prep. 99 Typus Holotype Syntype 04455:1 of Entella natalica Beier 1955
Entella natalica Beier 1955
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| | Entella rudebecki Beier,1955 | | Lesotho | 1 |  | Slide Type Slide (1) 1 slide Gen prep. 98 Typus Holotype Syntype 04456:1 of Entella rudebecki Beier 1955
Entella rudebecki Beier 1955
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| | | | Lesotho | 1 |  | Type Mantodea 4455 (1) Typus Holotype Syntype 04456:1 of Entella rudebecki Beier 1955
Entella rudebecki Beier 1955
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| | Entella rukwaensis Kaltenbach,1990 | | Tanzania | 1 | | Type Mantodea 2260 (1) Holotype 02260:1 of Entella rukwaensis Kaltenbach 1990
Entella rukwaensis Kaltenbach 1990
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| | Entella spp. |  | South Africa | 3 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 10 (3) larvae
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| | Entella transvaalica Beier,1955 | | South Africa | 1 | | Type Mantodea 4455 (1) Typus Holotype Syntype 04457:1 of Entella transvaalica Beier 1955
Entella transvaalica Beier 1955
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| | Entelloptera rogenhoferi Saussure,1872 | | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (1)
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| | | | South Africa | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (1)
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| | Epitenodera iringana Giglio-Tos,1912 | | Rwanda | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (1)
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| | Euchomenella heteroptera de Haan,1842 | | Indonesia | 6 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.8 (6)
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| | | | Indonesia | 2 | | Java Mantidae Or.8 (2)
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| | Geomantis algerica Giglio-Tos,1916 | | Algeria | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (2)
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| | Geomantis larvoides Pantel,1896 | | Spain | 6 | | Mantidae Pal.2 (6) from San Raphael
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| | Gonatista grisea Fabricius,1793 | | United States | 1 | | Florida Mantidae N.Am.1 (1)
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| | Gonypeta punctata Haan,1842 | | Indonesia | 9 | | Java Mantidae Or.4 (9)
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| | | | Indonesia | 1 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.4 (1)
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| | Gonypetella carinata Kaltenbach,1990 | | Kenya | 1 | | Type Mantodea 2260 (1) Holotype Paratype 02263:1-4 of Gonypetella carinata Kaltenbach 1990
Gonypetella carinata Kaltenbach 1990
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| | | | Tanzania | 3 | | Type Mantodea 2260 (3) Holotype Paratype 02263:1-4 of Gonypetella carinata Kaltenbach 1990
Gonypetella carinata Kaltenbach 1990
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| | Gonypetella deletrix Rehn,1927 | | South Africa | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 1 (1)
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| | | | Zimbabwe | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (1)
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| | Gonypetella kilimandjarica Sjöstedt,1909 | | Zambia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (1)
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| | Gonypetella kilimandjarica hyaloptera Kaltenbach,1990 | | Tanzania | 2 | | Type Mantodea 2260 (2) Holotype Paratype 02262:1-2 of Gonypetella kilimandjarica hyaloptera Kaltenbach 1990
Gonypetella kilimandjarica hyaloptera Kaltenbach 1990
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| | Heterochaeta orientalis Gerstaecker,1883 | | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.15 (1)
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| | Hierodula aruana Westwood,1889 | | Indonesia | 3 | | Aru islands Mantidae Or.14 (3)
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| | Hierodula formosana Giglio-Tos,1912 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumatra Mantidae Or.8 (1)
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| | Hierodula heteroptera Werner,1906 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.13 (1) as Ephierodula heteroptera
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| | Hierodula membranacea Burmeister,1838 | | Sri Lanka | 2 | | Mantidae Or.16 (2)
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| | Hierodula patellifera Serville,1839 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumbawa Mantidae Or.13 (1) as H. bipapilla
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| | Hierodula schultzei Giglio-Tos,1912 | | Indonesia | 4 | | New Guinea Mantidae Or.14 (4)
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| | Hierodula similis Beier,1935 | | Indonesia | 2 | | Sulawesi Mantidae Or.13 (2)
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| | Hierodula sorongana Giglio-Tos,1912 | | Indonesia | 1 | | New Guinea Mantidae Or.13 (1)
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| | Hierodula spp. |  | China | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.4 (1)
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| | |  | Greece | 1 | | Lesbos Mantidae Pal.4 (1)
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| | |  | Italy | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.4 (1)
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| | |  | Unknown | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.4 (2)
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| | Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl,1878 | | Afghanistan | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 4 (1) dried-out
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| | Hierodula unimaculata Olivier,1792 | | Sri Lanka | 8 | | Mantidae Or.16 (1) Or.18 (7)
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| | Hierodula venosa Olivier,1792 | | Australia | 1 | | Mantidae Pac.1 (1) ootheca
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| | | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumatra Mantidae Or.12 (1)
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| | | | Indonesia | 6 | | Java Mantidae Or.11 (2) Or.12 (4)
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| | | | Indonesia | 7 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.11 (6) Or.13 (1)
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| | Ischnomantis fatiloqua Stål,1856 | | South Africa | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.15 (1)
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| | Ligaria aberrans Karny,1908 | | Namibia | 1 | | Slide Slide Dictyoptera 5 (1) Genitalia prep. 101 as Pseudentella aberrans
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| | | | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.23 (1) Marked as Allotype by Beier. First described male of species.
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| | Ligaria backlundi Kaltenbach,1996 | | Zambia | 1 | | Type Mantodea 2260 (1) Holotype 02261:1 of Ligaria backlundi Kaltenbach 1990
Ligaria backlundi Kaltenbach 1990
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| | Ligaria brevicollis Stål,1877 | | South Africa | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (3)
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| | | | Tanzania | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.3 (2)
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| | Ligaria brevicollis umtalica Giglio-Tos,1915 | | Zimbabwe | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.14 (4)
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| | Ligaria diabolica Beier,1969 | | Angola | 1 | | Type Mantodea 4455 (1) Holotype 04485:1 of Ligaria diabolica Beier 1969
Ligaria diabolica Beier 1969
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| | Ligaria quadrinotata Chopard,1914 | | Lesotho | 19 | | Mantidae Afr.16 (19)
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| | Ligaria spp. |  | South Africa | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 10 (1) larvae
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| | Ligariella gracilis Karny,1908 | | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.16 (1)
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| | Ligariella trigonalis Saussure,1899 | | Namibia | 6 | | Mantidae Afr.16 (6)
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| | | | South Africa | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.16 (4)
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| | Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus,1758) | | Algeria | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.8 (1)
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| | | | Czechia | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.5 (1)
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| | | | Egypt | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.8 (3)
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| | | | France | 9 | | Mantidae Pal.1 (6) Pal.3 (3) ("with Riela-paraites" = Mantibaria (see Scelionidae Pal. 2))
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| | | | France | 40 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 13 (40) dried-out
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| | | | Hungary | 4 | | Mantidae (4) Pal.1+2
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| | | | Iran | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.3 (1)
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| | | | South Africa | 5 | | Mantidae Afr.17 (5)
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| | | | Sri Lanka | 2 | | Mantidae Or.6 (2)
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| | | | Sweden | 1 | | Skåne Reference Dictyoptera (1)
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| | | | Tanzania | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.8 (2)
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| | | | Unknown | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.2 (1)
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| | Miomantis binotata Giglio-Tos,1911 | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (1)
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| | Miomantis brunni Giglio-Tos,1911 | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | Miomantis caffra Saussure,1871 | | South Africa | 7 | | Mantidae Afr.17 (7)
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| | Miomantis cinnabarina Giglio-Tos,1911 | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (1)
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| | Miomantis exilis Giglio-Tos,1911 | | South Africa | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (4)
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| | Miomantis fallax Giglio-Tos,1917 | | Ethiopia | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.11 (4)
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| | Miomantis fenestrata Fabricius,1781 | | Lesotho | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (3)
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| | | | South Africa | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (3)
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| | Miomantis moerana Giglio-Tos,1917 | | South Africa | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (2)
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| | Miomantis monacha Fabricius,1787 | | Unknown | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.12 (1)
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| | Miomantis montana Giglio-Tos,1911 | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | Miomantis prasina Burmeister,1838 | | South Africa | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (4)
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| | Miomantis quadripunctata Saussure,1898 | | South Africa | 25 | | Mantidae Afr.18 (7) Afr.19 (18)
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| | Miomantis spp. |  | Afghanistan | 1 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 5 (1) larvae
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| | |  | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 2 | | Mantidae (2) Afr.10+11
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| | |  | Lesotho | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.19 (2)
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| | |  | Namibia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.19 (1)
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| | |  | Rwanda | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (1)
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| | |  | South Africa | 9 | | Mantidae Afr.11 (2) Afr.19 (7)
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| | |  | South Africa | 3 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 10 (3)
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| | |  | Zambia | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (2) Afr.11 (2)
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| | |  | Zimbabwe | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.19 (3)
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| | Musonia spp. |  | Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | | Mantidae S.Am.1 (1)
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| | Myrcinus tuberosus Stål,1877 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.4 (1)
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| | Omomantis zebrata Charpentier,1843 | | Tanzania | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | Oxyothespis dumonti Chopard,1941 | | Tunisia | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.2 (1)
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| | Oxyothespis persica Bolivar,1913 | | Iran | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.3 (1)
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| | Paramantis sacra Thunberg,1815 | | South Africa | 4 | | Mantidae Afr.20 (4)
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| | Paramantis victoriana Werner,1908 | | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (2)
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| | Polyspilota aeruginosa (Goeze,1778) | | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 7 | | Mantidae Afr.4 (7) Afr.4+5
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| | | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.5 (1)
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| | | | Sierra Leone | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.4 (2)
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| | | | Zimbabwe | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.20 (1)
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| | Polyspilota caffra Westwood,1889 | | South Africa | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.20 (3)
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| | Polyspilota caffra transvaaliana Giglio-Tos,1911 | | South Africa | 7 | | Mantidae Afr.21 (7)
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| | Popa spurca Stål,1856 | | South Africa | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.21 (3)
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| | Popa spurca undata Fabricius,1793 | | South Africa | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.22 (1)
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| | | | Zimbabwe | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.22 (1)
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| | Rhombodera basalis de Haan,1842 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Java Mantidae Or.7 (1)
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| | Rhombodera extensicollis Serville,1839 | | Indonesia | 4 | | Java Mantidae Or.6 (4)
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| | Rhombodera lingulata Stål,1877 | | Indonesia | 8 | | Java Mantidae Or.9 (6) as Hierodula flava Or.10 (2) as Hierodula flava
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| | Rhombodera taprobanae Wood-Mason,1878 | | Sri Lanka | 1 | | Mantidae Or.15 (1)
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| | Rivetina baetica tenuidentata La Greca & Lombardo,1982 | | Algeria | 5 | | Mantidae Afr.1 (5)
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| | Rivetina balcanica Kaltenbach,1963 | | Greece | 1 | | Mantidae Pal.1 (1)
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| | Rivetina fasciata Thunberg,1815 | | Afghanistan | 17 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 4 (6) dried-out Mantodea 5 (11)
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| | | | Turkey | 2 | | Mantidae Pal.3 (2)
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| | Rivetina spp. |  | Afghanistan | 5 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 5 (5) larvae
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| | |  | Greece | 1 | | Crete Mantidae Pal.4 (1)
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| | Schizocephala bicornis Linnaeus,1758 | | Sri Lanka | 1 | | Mantidae Or.13 (1)
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| | Sphodromantis centralis Rehn,1914 | | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 5 | | Mantidae Afr.6 (5)
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| | | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.6 (1)
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| | Sphodromantis gastrica Stål,1858 | | Lesotho | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.22 (1)
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| | | | South Africa | 5 | | Mantidae Afr.22 (5)
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| | | | Zimbabwe | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.22 (1)
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| | Sphodromantis lineola pinguis Roy,1968 | | Congo | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.7 (1)
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| | | | Tanzania | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.7 (3)
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| | Sphodromantis viridis Forskål,1775 | | Egypt | 3 | | Mantidae Afr.8 (3)
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| | Statilia maculata Thunberg,1784 | | India | 1 | | Mantidae Or.17 (1)
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| | | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumatra Mantidae Or.17 (1)
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| | | | Indonesia | 5 | | Java Mantidae Or.17 (5)
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| | | | Indonesia | 5 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.17 (5)
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| | Tamolanica tamolana Brancsik,1897 | | Indonesia | 2 | | New Guinea Mantidae Or.7 (2) as Hierodula tamaolana
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| | Tenodera aridifolia Stoll,1813 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumatra Mantidae Or.3 (1)
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| | | | Indonesia | 7 | | Java Mantidae (7) Or.2+3
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| | | | Indonesia | 4 | | Sumbawa Mantidae (4) Or.2+3
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| | Tenodera costalis Blanchard,1853 | | Indonesia | 2 | | New Guinea Mantidae Or.4 (2)
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| | Tenodera fasciata Olivier,1792 | | Indonesia | 1 | | Java Mantidae Or.15 (1)
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| | | | Indonesia | 3 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.15 (3)
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| | | | Indonesia | 1 | | Sumbawa Mantidae Or.15 (1)
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| | | | Malaysia | 10 | | Borneo Mantidae Or.1 (10)
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| | | | Sri Lanka | 8 | | Alcohol Wet Mantodea 2 (8)
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| | Tenodera iringana Giglio-Tos,1912 | | Tanzania | 2 | | Mantidae Afr.10 (2)
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| | Tenodera superstitiosa bokiana Giglio-Tos,1907 | | Kenya | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.9 (1)
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| | | | South Africa | 1 | | Mantidae Afr.23 (1)
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| | Thesprotia graminis Scudder,1878 | | United States | 1 | | Florida Mantidae N.Am.1 (1)
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| | Vates spp. |  | Brazil | 1 | | Mantidae S.Am.1 (1)
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| | Zoolea lobipes Olivier,1792 | | Brazil | 1 | | Mantidae S.Am.1 (1)
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| Unidentified Mantodea | Unidentified Mantodea |  | Indonesia | 3 | | Java Mantidae Or.17 (3) egg-capsule
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| | |  | Sri Lanka | 7 | | Mantidae Or.8 (7) larvae
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| | |  | Sri Lanka | 2 | | Mantidae Or.6 (2)
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