Mantis-0826.jpg

Mantis-0826.jpg, a photo by HVargas on Flickr.

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Mantodea (or mantises, mantes) is an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species and about 430 genera.
praying mantis, because of the typical "prayer-like" posture with folded fore-limbs, although the eggcorn "preying mantis" is sometimes used in reference to their predatory habits.
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Los mantodeos Mantodea, de Mantis,son un orden de insectos neópteros comúnmente conocidos como mantis, mamboretás, santa teresas, rezadoras o campamochas.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Mantodea
Camera: Canon EOS 5D mark-III
Lens: Canon EF 180mm Macro L
Settings: 1/160ƒ/8 ISO-640 180mm
Capture: Conowingo, MD-USA
By: HVargas