Gonatista
Encyclopedia
Gonatista is a genus
of praying mantises that includes these species:
According to a 2004 paper by entomologists
from the University of Catania
and the National Museum of Natural History
this genus:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of praying mantises that includes these species:
- G. griseaGonatista griseaGonatista grisea, common name Grizzled Mantis or Lichen Mimic, is a species of praying mantis native to the Southern United States, primarily Florida...
- G. jaibaGonatista jaibaGonatista jaiba is a species of praying mantis living in Hispaniola that was discovered in 2004....
- G. majorGonatista majorGonatista major is a species of praying mantis native to the Caribbean and is found in Puerto Rico, on Hispanola, and perhaps elsewhere. In comparing G. grisea and G. reticulata in 2008, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture wrote:...
- G. phryganoidesGonatista phryganoidesGonatista phryganoides is a species of praying mantis discovered in 1839. According to an entomologist's account published in 1912:...
- G. reticulataGonatista reticulataGonatista reticulata is a species of praying mantis from the Caribbean. According to one entomologist's notes:...
According to a 2004 paper by entomologists
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...
from the University of Catania
University of Catania
The University of Catania is a university located in Catania, Italy, and founded in 1434. It is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy and the 29th oldest university in the world...
and the National Museum of Natural History
National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. Admission is free and the museum is open 364 days a year....
this genus:
...is widely distributed in North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and the CaribbeanCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
area. There are (five) homogeneous species...whose specific differences such as chromatic models and body size, as shown in literature (Caudell 1912), do not help us in their identification. On the basis of the material studied here we have verified that a valid diagnostic character is the morphologyMorphology (biology)In biology, morphology is a branch of bioscience dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features....
of the external copulatory apparatus