Empusa pennata

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Empusa pennata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Empusidae
Genus:	Empusa
Species:	E. pennata
Binomial name
Empusa pennata (Thunberg, 1815)
Synonyms
Empusa brachyptera Fischer-Waldheim, 1846 Empusa clavata Goeze, 1778 Empusa egena Charpentier, 1841 Empusa europaea Fieber, 1853 Empusa humbertiana Saussure, 1869 Empusa occidentalis Fieber, 1853 Empusa pauperata Fabricius, 1781 Empusa pectinata Drury, 1770 Empusa servillii Saussure, 1872 Empusa spuria Goeze, 1778 Empusa tricornis Goeze, 1778 Empusa unicornis Saussure, 1871 Empusa variabilis Risso, 1826

Empusa pennata, or the conehead mantis, is a species of praying mantis in genus Empusa native to the Mediterranean Region. It can be found in Portugal, Spain, southern France, Italy and on the mediterranean coasts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Turkey and Egypt.^[1] Because of its cryptic nature, or also possibly because of its fragmented, low-density populations, it is rarely encountered in the wild.^[1]