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Fry's Electronics Mantid - Stagmomantis californica - male

Fry's Electronics Mantid - Stagmomantis californica - Male
Fry's Electronics, San Diego County, California, USA
August 28, 2009
Size: 30mm

Moved
Moved from Stagmomantis.

Stagmomantis wheelerii
Stagmomantis [californicus] wheelerii, male

“Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada”
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Praying-Mantises-of-the-United-States-and-Canada

Moved
Moved from Mantids.

Moved
Moved from Mantids.

 
Why does it say
"Moved from Mantids" while it is still clearly appearing in Mantids? Ditto the termite you were shuffling around?

 
Taxonomy shuffling
To update BugGuide's taxonomy, we have just elevated Blattodea and Mantodea from suborders of Dictyoptera to full orders (with Dictyoptera becoming a superorder). Termites are now considered to be a very specialized group of cockroaches, so they got moved around too. Images that had been identified at least to family were easy to shift around, but those without an ID had to be moved manually to their new places. So mantids were moved from obsolete suborder Mantodea to order Mantodea, and termites were moved from obsolete order Isoptera to "Termites," which doesn't have a Latin name or rank assigned to it yet--it may end up being an epifamily, Termitoidae. We don't have any ranks above family in our taxonomic structure of cockroaches, but you can see where termites fit in on the cockroach guide page.

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