Boxer mantis
{{Short description|Common name for several praying mantises}}
Boxer mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate with each other.
Communication
When boxer mantises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying the patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing member of the same species from eating each other.Alien Insect: Praying Mantis, 2004, by Discovery Channel.
Species
- Acromantis gestri Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Thai boxer mantis,[http://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/boxer-mantis.html Thailand Boxer Praying Mantis - Acromantis gestri] Thailand boxer mantis, Sumatran Acromantis)
- Acromantis japonica Westwood, 1889 (Japanese boxer mantis)
- Astyliasula major
- Ephestiasula pictipes (purple boxer mantis)
- Otomantis sp.{{Cite web |url=http://www.usamantis.com/Log.html# |title=List on mantises and common names |access-date=2008-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617203805/http://www.usamantis.com/Log.html# |archive-date=2008-06-17 |url-status=dead }}
- Oxypilus distinctus (Beier, 1930){{Cite web|url=http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1116|title = Synonym Oxypilus (Oxypilus) distinctus Beier, 1930: Mantodea Species File}} (Gambian boxer mantis {{Cite web |url=http://www.usamantis.com/Log.html# |title=Oxypilus distinctus |access-date=2008-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617203805/http://www.usamantis.com/Log.html# |archive-date=2008-06-17 |url-status=dead }})
- Theopropus elegans (banded flower mantis, Asian boxer mantis)