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[[File:Gonatista grisea 2024 Oct. 4.jpg|thumb|''Gonatista grisea'' Fabricus 1793. Family Lituragusidae. Order Mantodea. Scale bar is 1 cm. Collected from Jones County, Georgia. Collected from base of tree trunk via hand. Collected 2024 September 30. <ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Abbott |first=John |title=Insects of North America |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-691-23285-0 |location=Princeton, New Jersey |pages=159-163}}</ref>]] |
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'''''Gonatista grisea''''', [[common name]] '''grizzled mantis''', '''Florida bark mantis''' or '''lichen mimic mantis''', is a [[species]] of [[praying mantis]] native to the southern United States, primarily [[Florida]]. They commonly perch on trees facing down to wait for prey, and will eat any insect they can overpower.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=Florida Preying Mantids Insecta - Mantodea |url=https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/choate/mantid_key1_03.pdf}}</ref> |
'''''Gonatista grisea''''', [[common name]] '''grizzled mantis''', '''Florida bark mantis''' or '''lichen mimic mantis''', is a [[species]] of [[praying mantis]] native to the southern United States, primarily [[Florida]]. They commonly perch on trees facing down to wait for prey, and will eat any insect they can overpower.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=Florida Preying Mantids Insecta - Mantodea |url=https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/choate/mantid_key1_03.pdf}}</ref> |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Epaphroditidae |
| Genus: | Gonatista |
| Species: | G. grisea
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| Gonatista grisea Fabricius, 1793
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Gonatista grisea, common name grizzled mantis, Florida bark mantis or lichen mimic mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to the southern United States, primarily Florida. They commonly perch on trees facing down to wait for prey, and will eat any insect they can overpower.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Florida Preying Mantids Insecta - Mantodea" (PDF). 2003.
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