Ameles spallanzania mantis from our garden. A fairly small mantis, orange-brown in color, sits on a twig with small green leaves, looking towards the camera.

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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

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