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Boxer mantis

common name for several praying mantises

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4951682 ↗
Source-derived summary

Boxer mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantises. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate with each other.

Communication

When boxer mantises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying their patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing members of the same species from eating each other.

Species

Acromantis gestri Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Thai boxer mantis, Thailand boxer mantis, Sumatran Acromantis)

Acromantis japonica Westwood, 1889 (Japanese boxer mantis)

Astyliasula major

Ephestiasula pictipes (purple boxer mantis)

Otomantis sp.

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This entry incorporates text from “Boxer mantis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.