Talk:European mantis

Name!
European mantis is its common name and the WikiProject Mantodea suggest that the species in articles are to be named by their Scientific name.

Cheers!

P.A.M.S-Phasmids And Mantids Studies (talk) 02:01, 27 October 2008 (UTC) [date added by dcljr (talk)]


 * Agree - just take a look at the subspecies list! ... Roy Bateman (talk) 05:39, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Agreed, but maybe one should mention the duality of the names in the introduction, as otherwise it looks like a (repeated) typo ('d' is next to the 's' on qwerty keywords after all.). Jérémy "Le JyBy" Barbay 16:43, 18 October 2020 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lejyby (talk • contribs)

Picture: is it male or female?
It says that it is female but somebody else on the picture's page says it is male (probably the person who took the picture). I cannot tell if it is male or female. Do you know if it is female or male?

Happy1892 (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is a female based on the short antennae and chunkier build. Males have longer antennae, about three times longer than the individual in the photo, and a slighter build, the latter feature is obvious once one is experienced with the species. ...and yes, I know it's 10 years late. 37.68.250.6 (talk) 01:32, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Insects: Change rating
Article is listed as (Rated Stub-class, Low-importance). How to change these categories based on the recent upgrade of the article? Tatjana Tull (talk) 13:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I've updated the rating, but you should feel free to change it yourself if you expand any other articles. If you're not comfortable giving it a new rating yourself, just remove the old rating (i.e., change "class=stub" to "class=") and somebody will eventually update it. Plantdrew (talk) 16:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Lifespan
"They have a shorter life expectancy than females (7–8 versus 11–12 days)" - no reference, looks untrue. Other sources claim mantis can live up to 1 year. Maybe months, not days? Feanfox (talk) 05:56, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I see it's been changed to months, but one published reference states "The average lifespan of male and female is 165 and 196 days
 * respectively. The entire life cycle period of female is 31 days more than male." Source: Raut GA and Gaikwad SM. 2016. Observations on the Life cycle, Mating and Cannibalism of Mantis religiosa religiosa Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta: Mantodea: Mantidae).Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(6): 478-482. 37.68.250.6 (talk) 01:39, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Mantis
Female 2A02:2454:809B:9100:5DE5:3E5B:BEF3:C9D4 (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)