Talk:European mantis

Name!

European mantis is its common name and the WikiProject Mantodea suggest that the species in articles are to be named by their Scientific name.

Cheers!

P.A.M.S-Phasmids And Mantids Studies (talk) 02:01, 27 October 2008 (UTC) [date added by dcljr (talk)]

Agree - just take a look at the subspecies list! ... Roy Bateman (talk) 05:39, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Agreed, but maybe one should mention the duality of the names in the introduction, as otherwise it looks like a (repeated) typo ('d' is next to the 's' on qwerty keywords after all.). Jérémy "Le JyBy" Barbay 16:43, 18 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lejyby (talk • contribs)

Picture: is it male or female?

It says that it is female but somebody else on the picture's page says it is male (probably the person who took the picture). I cannot tell if it is male or female. Do you know if it is female or male?

this is the picture

Happy1892 (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is a female based on the short antennae and chunkier build. Males have longer antennae, about three times longer than the individual in the photo, and a slighter build, the latter feature is obvious once one is experienced with the species. ...and yes, I know it's 10 years late. 37.68.250.6 (talk) 01:32, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Insects: Change rating

Article is listed as (Rated Stub-class, Low-importance). How to change these categories based on the recent upgrade of the article? Tatjana Tull (talk) 13:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Tatjana Tull: I've updated the rating, but you should feel free to change it yourself if you expand any other articles. If you're not comfortable giving it a new rating yourself, just remove the old rating (i.e., change "class=stub" to "class=") and somebody will eventually update it. Plantdrew (talk) 16:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Lifespan

"They have a shorter life expectancy than females (7–8 versus 11–12 days)" - no reference, looks untrue. Other sources claim mantis can live up to 1 year. Maybe months, not days? Feanfox (talk) 05:56, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

I see it's been changed to months, but one published reference states "The average lifespan of male and female is 165 and 196 days

respectively. The entire life cycle period of female is 31 days more than male." Source: Raut GA and Gaikwad SM. 2016. Observations on the Life cycle, Mating and Cannibalism of Mantis religiosa religiosa Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta: Mantodea: Mantidae).Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(6): 478-482. 37.68.250.6 (talk) 01:39, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Mantis

Female 2A02:2454:809B:9100:5DE5:3E5B:BEF3:C9D4 (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)