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

Genus Iris

Iris oratorio - Iris oratoria - male Iris oratorio female - Iris oratoria - female narrow ootheka - Iris oratoria Stagmomantis limbata? - Iris oratoria Iris oratoria? - Iris oratoria - female Mantid egg case - Iris oratoria Adult mantid with pink on sides of thorax - Iris oratoria - male Brown adult mantid - another Iris? - Iris oratoria - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Mantodea (Mantids)
Family Tarachodidae
Genus Iris
Explanation of Names
Iris Saussure 1869
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area, 14 spp. total(1)
Range
Eurasia & Africa; one sp. adventive in sw US