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Tenodera sinensis 5 Luc Viatour🦗

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SpeciesMantodeaMantidae
Arthropods

🦗Chinese mantis

Tenodera sinensis Saussure, 1871

La mantis china (Tenodera sinensis) es una especie de mantis nativa de Asia. En 1896 fue introducida accidentalmente a Mount Airy, cerca de Filadelfia, Pensilvania, Estados Unidos.​ Anteriormente era considerada una subespecies de Tenodera aridifolia pero hoy en día se la trata como una especie diferente.​ Se alimenta de insectos y otros artrópodos, pero las hembras adultas son capaces de atrapar vertebrados pequeños. Hay casos documentados de reptiles, anfibios y picaflores como presas.​ Como la mayoría de las mantis practican canibalismo. Se las ha observado alimentándose de mariposas monarcas después de descartar las entrañas que son tóxicas.​

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Tenodera sinensis
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderMantodea
  5. ›familyMantidae
  6. ›genusTenodera
  7. ›speciesTenodera sinensis
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderMantodea
  3. tribePolyspilotini
  4. genusTenodera
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. genusDictyoptera
  7. orderMantodea
  8. tribePolyspilotini
  9. genusTenodera
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Große Chinesen-Mantis (de), 왕사마귀 (ko), 中华大刀螳 (zh), Louva-a-deus chinês (pt), Modliszka chińska (pl), Bọ ngựa Trung Quốc (vi) … and 13 more languages
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Tenodera sinensis 5 Luc ViatourChinese Mantid Flickr treegrow (1)2020 10 19 13 02 38 Praying Mantis on a porch railing along Tranquility Court in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Virginia
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