Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Family Mantidae

Bordered Mantis - Stagmomantis limbata - female Mantis Religiosa - Mantis religiosa Mantis ID Request - Stagmomantis carolina - male WI103114 - 013 - Stagmomantis carolina - female Chinese Mantis - Tenodera sinensis Mantinae Family? - Mantis religiosa - female Carolina Mantis - Stagmomantis carolina - female Praying Mantis - Stagmomantis carolina - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Mantodea (Mantids)
Family Mantidae
Explanation of Names
Mantidae Latreille 1802
see Mantis
Numbers
Largest family of Mantodea, with 20 spp. in 8 genera of 5 subfamilies in our area(1) and 74 genera arranged into 12 tribes and 10 subfamilies total(2)
not yet in the guide: Miomantis caffra Saussure 1871 (Miomantinae), of S.African origin, now cosmopolitan, established in Los Angeles Co., CA (first reported in 2013)(1)
Range
worldwide
Habitat
Mostly tropical and subtropical