Mantis

Mantodea is an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species and about 430 genera of mantises (or praying mantises) in 15 families worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. Most of the species are in the family Mantidae. Their lifespan is normally up to a year. Females sometimes practise sexual cannibalism, eating their mate after, or occasionally decapitating the male just before mating.

The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (Blattodea). They are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea) and other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae).

A cultural trope imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale, devouring the male after mating. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.

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