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Albert Cardona

A 110-million year old mantis [1], a ~20/5-million year old mantis [2], and a mantis from our garden [3].

[1] "An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans", Hörnig et al. 2017 peerj.com/articles/3605/
[2] "A new species of mantis (Insecta: Mantodea: Amelidae) from the Miocene Amber-Lagerstätte in Mexico", Terríquez-Beltrán et al. 2022 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
[3] inaturalist.org/observations/1

Figure 1: New specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068. (A) Overview. (B) Colour-marked version of A; dark blue: eyes, yellow: head capsule, brown: tergite of thorax segment 1 (pronotum), orange: prothoracic femur, purple: prothoracic tibia, dark green: mesothoracic coxa, indigo: mesothoracic trochanter, blue: mesothoracic femur, light green: mesothoracic tibia, red: spines. (C) Detail of appendage of thorax segment 2, same colour code as in B.
Figure 3. Litaneutria pilosuspedes sp. nov A. Holotype CPAL.442, dorsal view. Scale bar 1 mm. Abbreviations: (Ab) Abdomen, (an) antenna, (avfs) anteroventral femoral spines, (avts) anteroventral tibial spines, (ce) cerci, (cs) coxoesternite, (cx) coxa, (ds) discoidal spines, (ey) compound eye, (f) fémur, (ge) gena, (jop) juxtaocular process, (gs) genicular spur, (lbp) labial palp, (la) labrum, (mz) metazone, (pe) pedicel, (pn) pronotum, (pvfs) posteroventral femoral spines, (pvts) posteroventral tibial spines, (pz) prozone, (sc) scape, (scx) supracoxal dilatation, (ti) tibia, (ta) tarsomere, (tr) trochanter, (ts) tibial spur, (un) unguis, (vx) vertex.
Ameles spallanzania mantis from our garden. A fairly small mantis, orange-brown in color, sits on a twig with small green leaves, looking towards the camera.
#iNaturalist#Mantodea#entomology
Albert Cardona

Unfortunately the really well-preserved mantis encased in amber are stashed away in private collections where nobody can study them. I can't even track where this image is from except that the specimen was sold in an auction.

A mantis encased in amber, its forelimbs lifted up. Looks golden.
#Mantodea#mantis
Sep 20, 2024, 02:34 PM·Public
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