Predatory behavior of praying mantis to nonlocomotive prey model

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Shot Date: 1997/08

* species
Tenodera angustipennis

Key Words
mantis
prey recognition
vision
insect


Yoshifumi Yamawaki
2001/11/14 submitted



Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Mantodea >Mantidae >Tenodera >

A praying mantis shows predatory behavior toward a non-locomotive prey model consisting of a stationary square and oscillating lines.

References:
Yamawaki, Y. (2000)
Effects of luminance, size, and angular velocity on the recognition of nonlocomotive prey models by the praying mantis. J. Ethol. 18, 85-90

(Data No.momo011114ta01a)

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