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An adult large brown mantid (Archimantis latistyla, approx. 11 cm / 4 in long) hanging upside-down on a carrot flower. The majority of the species within the order Mantodea are praying mantises. The closest relatives of mantids are the orders Isoptera (termites) and Blattodea (cockroaches), and these three groups together are sometimes ranked as an order rather than a superorder.

Photo credit: Fir0002
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