Statilia maculata
| Statilia maculata | |
|---|---|
| |
| Adult female | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Mantidae |
| Genus: | Statilia |
| Species: | S. maculata
|
| Binomial name | |
| Statilia maculata (Thunberg, 1784)
| |
| Subspecies | |
Statilia maculata, common name Asian jumping mantis or "小蟷螂", ko-kamakiri (Japanese meaning "small mantis") or "좀사마귀", joem-sa-ma-gui (Korean meaning "small mantis"), is a species of mantis native to Asia that can be found in Romania, China and Japan and Korea, Jamaica and Sri Lanka.[1]
Description
[edit]Males: 40–80 mm in length as adult Females: 45–58 mm in length as adult[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]First described from the genus Mantis by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg in 1784. Thunberg described the mantis as being from eastern India.[3]
Subspecies
[edit]- Statilia maculata maculata China, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), Taiwan,[4] India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Java, Borneo, Nepal, Myanmar, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand,[5] Korea [2]
- Statilia maculata continentalis India (Uttar Pradesh)
Gallery
[edit]-
Adult female -
Asian jumping mantis at night, in West Bengal, India.
_in_West_Bengal_2.jpg)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Natural-Japan.net (2007)
- ^ a b "Orthopteroids of KOREA" Mantodea section: Statilia maculata
- ^ Thunberg, Carl Peter (1784). Dissertatio entomologica novas insectorum species, sistens : cuius partem primam [-sextam] : Cons. Exper. Facult. Med. Upsal., publice ventilandam exhibent. Vol. pars 3 (1784). Upsaliae: Apud Joh. Edman.
- ^ "コカマキリ".
- ^ a b Article Title: Updated checklist of Indian Mantodea (Insecta)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
.jpg){kind=small} | This Mantidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |