Mantis (genus)

Mantis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Tribe: Mantini
Genus: Mantis
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Synonyms
  • Mantes Geoffroy, 1764

The genus Mantis is in the family Mantidae, of the mantis order Mantodea.

Some of its species have the common name "praying mantis".