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Species Mantoida maya - Little Yucatan Mantid

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Mantodea (Mantids)

Family Mantoididae

Genus Mantoida

Species maya (Little Yucatan Mantid)

Explanation of Names

Mantoida maya Saussure & Zehntner 1894

Size

15-17 mm(1)

Identification

The juvenile form of this species mimics ants and wingless ichneumon wasps (head & thorax red, abdomen black). Pronotum square-shaped, about as long as wide. The abdomen is generally oval with white bands on the first 2 abdominal tergites. There are also white bands on the antennea which are waved in a manner similar to ichneumonids.

Range

FL; Mexico

Habitat

open pinelands, scrub(2); ground litter in hammocks and thickets of dense scrub(1)

Season

adults Jun-Sep(2)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies Jacques R. Helfer. 1962. Wm. C. Brown Company.

2.	Florida preying mantids Choate P.M. 2003.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 14 July, 2004 - 8:10am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2021 - 7:36pm

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