Sites

Mantodea/NCState-AgNIC - English
URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/taxon/mantodea/index.html

This page has resources on Mantodea, the mantids.

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Gongylus gongylodes - English
URL: http://www.magmaconcept.com/insects/0gongy.htm

Photos.

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Gongylus gongylodes - English
URL: http://www.jjphoto.dk/animal_archive/gongylus_gongylodes.htm

Photo.

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Easy Exotics - Exotic Pets, Food & Equipment - English
URL: http://www.easyexotics.co.uk/shop/index.html?target=p_38.html&lang=en-gb

UK pet shop suppliers of exotic pets like Mantis, Scorpions, Tarantulas, Millipedes, snakes, lizards and frogs. Also provide live food like crickets, mealworms plus equipment.

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Wondering Violin Mantis - Gongylus Gongyloids - English
URL: http://www.mantisuk.com/variety/wonderingviolinmantis.asp

This has to be one of the strangest and bizarrely looking Mantids there is! They look very fragile due to their 'Prothorax' (neck), being very elongate and narrow. As it reaches the head, just above the arms, it widens slightly into a diamond shape. Their eyes seem to be pointed, with a leaf like shape that sits between the antennae on top of its head. On the abdomen and walking legs, lobes are present.

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Order Mantodea - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/arthropoda/insecta/mantodea.html

Species included in the Animal Diversity Web: Orthodera novaezealandiae (Praying Mantis), Stagmomantis carolina (Carolina Mantid).

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Praying Mantises by Diane Donohue - English
URL: http://pages.about.com/enhg/July1980/11_23.htm

The praying mantises are readily distinguished from cockroaches by the strong spined raptorial front legs. They also have a long, narrow prothorax that forms a movable 'neck'. At rest, the prothorax is usually raised a little and the front legs are held folded in front of the face - hence the name 'praying mantises'.

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Dictyoptera - English
URL: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/dictyop

Part of Tree of Life. Relationships between Dictyoptera, Isoptera (termites), Mantodea (mantids), Blattaria.

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Gottesanbeterinnen.de - Gongylus gongylodes - German
URL: http://www.gottesanbeterinnen.de/artenteil/gongylus_gongylodes/gongylus.htm

Besonderheiten: Mag es ausgesprochen warm (30-40C). Unter 35C ist auch keine Nachzucht möglich. Auch adulte Tiere lassen sich bei guter Fütterung zusammenhalten. Unserer Erfahrung nach nehmen sie lieber Fluginsekten als Bodenbewohner als Nahrung.

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