stick mantis

{{Short description|Common name for several praying mantises}}

File:Hoplocorypha macra.jpg, a species of African stick mantis. Illustration by M. Beier, 1935]]

Stick mantis and twig mantis are common names applied to numerous species of mantis that mimic sticks or twigs as camouflage. Often the name serves to identify entire genera such as is the case with:[http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/choate/mantid_key1_03.pdf Dichotomous Key to Species of Mantids that may occur in Florida][http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/list_of_slides.htm Department of Entomology and Nematology of the University of Florida] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612085016/http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/list_of_slides.htm |date=2008-06-12 }}[http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/Mantids.html Phasmids in Cyberspace][http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Mantodea/Family/Mantidae.txt Texas A&M University] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102063107/http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Mantodea/Family/Mantidae.txt |date=November 2, 2008 }}

• Brunneria (including Brunner's stick mantis, the Brazilian stick mantis and the small-winged stick mantis)
• Hoplocorypha (the African stick mantises)
• Paratoxodera (including the Borneo stick mantis and the giant Malaysian stick mantis)
• Popa (African twig mantis)[http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/DriedPopaSpurca.html Phasmids in Cyberspace]

In cases, some but not all members of a genera are called by a variation of one of these names. For example:

• Archimantis latistyla (Australian stick mantis)[http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Amorphoscelis Tree of Life Web Project. 2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606044208/http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Amorphoscelis |date=June 6, 2011 }}
• Pseudovates peruviana (Peruvian stick mantis)[http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Mantodea/Family/Amorphoscelidae.txt Texas A&M University]