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Giant Asian Mantis

Hierodula patellifera

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) renier67248, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 180, February 177, March 215, April 569, May 455, June 491, July 426, August 462, September 408, October 526, November 386, December 267.
China4,562
Taiwan1,856
Taiwan Province1,749
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region1,307
Hawaii850
South Korea850
Japan539
United States390
Guangzhou Province283
Indonesia262

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • SymbioticLives in close mutualistic relationship with another organismFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderMantises · Mantodea
FamilyMantids · Mantidae
GenusGiant Asian Mantises · Hierodula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Giant Asian Mantis with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.