Iberian mantis
The Iberian mantis is a small praying mantis that lives only in Spain and Portugal. It can be brown, grey or green, so it blends in with the plants around it. Its eyes are unusual: they end in sharp points that stick up and out.
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Fun facts
The pointed eyes make it easy to tell apart from other mantises.
Its babies hide low down in the grass and jump about so quickly that they look like little grasshoppers.
People once worried it might die out, but now there are more of them, and they are moving into new places in Spain and Portugal.
Most asked questions about Iberian mantis
?Where does the Iberian mantis live?
Only on the Iberian Peninsula, which means Spain and Portugal.
?Is the Iberian mantis endangered?
Not any more. Its numbers are growing, so it is no longer on the endangered list.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Apteromantis aptera
- Named by
- Fuente, 1894
- Group
- Mantises
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Apteromantis aptera (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Marabuto E, Rodrigues I, Henriques S. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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