#mantis__mantid  predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
  supertype:  dictyopterous_insect__dictyopterousinsect  cockroaches and mantids
  subtype:  praying_mantis  the common mantis
  member of:  genus_Mantis  type genus of the Mantidae: mantises
     member of:  family_Mantidae__Mantidae__Manteidae__family_Manteidae  mantises
        member of:  suborder_Manteodea__Manteodea  mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera
           member of:  order_Dictyoptera__Dictyoptera  in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
              member of:  class_Insecta__Insecta__Hexapoda__class_Hexapoda  insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
                 member of:  phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda  jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
                    member of:  kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom  taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

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