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Boxer mantis

Boxer mantis

Common name for several praying mantises

Boxer mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate with each other.

Communication

When boxer mantises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying the patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing member of the same species from eating each other.[1]

Species

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Alien Insect: Praying Mantis, 2004, by Discovery Channel.
  2. [2]
    Thailand Boxer Praying Mantis - Acromantis gestri
  3. [3]
    "List on mantises and common names". Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  4. [4]
    "Synonym Oxypilus (Oxypilus) distinctus Beier, 1930: Mantodea Species File".
  5. [5]
    "Oxypilus distinctus". Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-07-29.


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