| LC control no. | sh2001008516 |
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| LC classification | QL505.83 QL505.96 Zoology |
| Topical heading | Mantodea |
| Variant(s) | Dictyoptera Manteodea Mantes Mantids Mantises Mantoidea Soothsayers (Insects) |
| See also | Insects |
| Found in | Work cat.: 2001004847: Hipp, A. Orchid mantises, 2003. NMNH [Smithsonian] world list of terrestrial arthropod families WWW site, Sept. 26, 2001 (order Mantodea, class Insecta) Phone call to S. Miller, chair, Smithsonian Dept. of Entomology. Sept. 26, 2001 (order Mantodea; Smithsonian follows classification in CSIRO's Insects of Australia, the most scholarly modern source) Insects of Australia, c1991: v. 1, p. 348 (mantids; originally classified as family in order Orthoptera, or combined with Blattodea in Dictyoptera; Mantodea now more generally regarded as separate order) Index to organism names WWW site, Sept. 25, 2001 (order Dictyoptera, suborder Mantodea) Nomina insecta nearctica WWW site, Sept. 25, 2001 (class Insecta, subclass Dicondylia, infraclass Pterygota, division Neoptera, subdivision Dictyoptera, order Mantodea) Integrated toxonomic information sytems WWW site, Sept. 25, 2001 (order Dictyoptera, family Mantidae [Mantodea not mentioned]) a Borror insects, c1989: p. 227 (order Mantodea, mantids, contains 8 families, most tropical; alternate classification as part of order Orthoptera or Dictyoptera) Arnett Am. insects, 2000: p. 189 (order Dictyoptera, mantids and cockroaches; suborder Mantodea) Brues classif. insects, 1954: p. 84 (order Orthoptera, suborder Manteodea; alt. spellings Mantoidea, Mantodea) LC data base, Sept. 25, 2001 (mantises; mantids or soothsayers; Mantodea) Random House dict. (mantis, pl. -tises, -tes; also mantid) |
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