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Boxer mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantises. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate with each other.
Communication
[edit]When boxer mantises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying their patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing members of the same species from eating each other.[1]
Species
[edit]- Acromantis gestri Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Thai boxer mantis,[2] Thailand boxer mantis, Sumatran Acromantis)
- Acromantis japonica Westwood, 1889 (Japanese boxer mantis)
- Astyliasula major
- Ephestiasula pictipes (purple boxer mantis)
- Otomantis sp.[3]
- Oxypilus distinctus (Beier, 1930)[4] (Gambian boxer mantis [5])
- Theopropus elegans (banded flower mantis, Asian boxer mantis)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Alien Insect: Praying Mantis, 2004, by Discovery Channel.
- ↑ Thailand Boxer Praying Mantis - Acromantis gestri
- ↑ "List on mantises and common names". Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- ↑ "Synonym Oxypilus (Oxypilus) distinctus Beier, 1930: Mantodea Species File".
- ↑ "Oxypilus distinctus". Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
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