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Figure 1: New specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068. (A) Overview. (B) Colour-marked version of A; dark blue: eyes, yellow: head capsule, brown: tergite of thorax segment 1 (pronotum), orange: prothoracic femur, purple: prothoracic tibia, dark green: mesothoracic coxa, indigo: mesothoracic trochanter, blue: mesothoracic femur, light green: mesothoracic tibia, red: spines. (C) Detail of appendage of thorax segment 2, same colour code as in B.

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Figure 1: New specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068. (A) Overview. (B) Colour-marked version of A; dark blue: eyes, yellow: head capsule, brown: tergite of thorax segment 1 (pronotum), orange: prothoracic femur, purple: prothoracic tibia, dark green: mesothoracic coxa, indigo: mesothoracic trochanter, blue: mesothoracic femur, light green: mesothoracic tibia, red: spines. (C) Detail of appendage of thorax segment 2, same colour code as in B.
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Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 17:29:44 JST Albert Cardona

A 110-million year old mantis [1], a ~20/5-million year old mantis [2], and a mantis from our garden [3].
[1] "An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans", Hörnig et al. 2017 https://peerj.com/articles/3605/
[2] "A new species of mantis (Insecta: Mantodea: Amelidae) from the Miocene Amber-Lagerstätte in Mexico", Terríquez-Beltrán et al. 2022 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2022.2134782
[3] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179582544
#iNaturalist #Mantodea #entomology #insects #mantis

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