#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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