Mantidae

During the halt, we bathed in the waters, upon whose banks were a multitude of huge Mantidae, pink and tender green.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

It was thus that I reared the Tarsal Bembex, which eats Anthrax-flies and other Diptera, on young Locustidae or Mantidae; the Silky Ammophila, whose diet consists chiefly of Measuring-worms, on small Spiders; the pot-making Pelopaeus, a Spider-eater, on tender Acridians; the Sand

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr. Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

a multitude of huge Mantidae, pink and tender green.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855