| Miomantis caffra | |
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| Laying her egg case | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Miomantidae |
| Genus: | Miomantis |
| Species: | M. caffra
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| Binomial name | |
| Miomantis caffra Saussure, 1871
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Miomantis caffra (common name: springbok mantis) is a species of praying mantis native to southern Africa. It appeared in New Zealand in 1978, and was found more recently in Portugal[1] and Los Angeles, USA,[2] likely spread through the exotic pet trade. Females are facultatively parthenogenetic and unmated females can produce viable offspring.[3] [4]
- ^ Marabuto, Eduardo (2014-12-11). "The Afrotropical Miomantis caffra Saussure 1871 and M. paykullii Stal 1871: first records of alien mantid species in Portugal and Europe, with an updated checklist of Mantodea in Portugal (Insecta: Mantodea)". Biodiversity Data Journal. 2: e4117. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e4117. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 4238084.
- ^ [1] Lessons About Love and Invasion from America's Foreign Mantises: Inside Science
- ^ Walker, Leilani A.; Holwell, Gregory I. (2016-01-01). "Sexual cannibalism in a facultative parthenogen: the springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra)". Behavioral Ecology. 27 (3): 851–856. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv221. ISSN 1045-2249.
- ^ Adair, EW (1924). "On parthenogenesis in Miomantis Savigny". Bull Soc Entomol. 8: 104–148.