Mantids (Mantodea)
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 57 mantid specimens (Manatodea) which date from 1963 to the present.
This collection contains dried, pinned and card-mounted adult insects. Most of these specimens were collected from Trinidad by Glasgow Museums’ former Keeper of Natural History, E. G. Hancock during his field trips with Glasgow University in the 1990s. These specimens include examples of the mantid Tithrone roseipennis referred to in his 1999 paper on the unusual asymmetrical colouration of the species. Hancock also collected specimens from Europe, including Greece, Spain and France. Other specimens in the collection are from West Africa, collected by K. Marshall and Austin Clough and are likely to date from the early 1900s, and from the USA, collected by W. R. B. Hynd and J. Morgan later in the 1900s.
About mantids
There are approximately 2,400 species of mantis worldwide, none of which are resident in the British Isles. They are predatory insects with powerful forearms that they use to grasp their prey, usually insects and other small animals. - Broader term
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