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	Learn more about Mantophasmatodea in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mantophasmatodea is an order of carnivorous insects discovered in 2002, the first new insect order to be described since 1914.
		The authors of the paper describing the new order note that "it cannot at present be categorically excluded" that the two Mantophasma specimens are of the same species, with the size difference reflecting sexual dimorphism, but they consider this unlikely, because of the wide geographical separation of the specimens.
		See also: "Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics", by Klaus-D. Klass, Oliver Zompro, Niels P. Kristensen, and Joachim Adis.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/ma/mantophasmatodea.html (245 words)

	Mantophasmatodea
		Mantophasmatodea is a newly described, relict order of insects comprising a handful of species restricted to Africa.
		The last time a category of insects was described at this deep evolutionary level was in 1914 when the ice crawlers (order Notoptera), a small group of insects restricted to the northern hemisphere, were brought to the attention of the scientific world.
		Specimens of Mantophasmatodea had in fact been collected in South Africa many years ago, mounted and housed in museum collections, but forgotten as they were misidentified as immature mantids (Order Mantodea).
	www.museums.org.za /bio/insects/mantophasmatodea (365 words)

	Mantophasmatodea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mantophasmatodea is an order of African carnivorous insects discovered in 2002, the first new insect order to be described since 1914.
		Klass, Klaus-D.; Zompro, Oliver; Kristensen, Niels P. and Adis, Joachim (2002): Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics.
		New order of insects identified: Mantophasmatodea find their place in Class Insecta
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mantophasmatodea (304 words)

	News in Science - The Wollemi Pine of the insect world - 19/04/2002
		Welcome to Mantophasmatodea — a new insect from tropical Africa that resembles a mix between a praying mantis and a stick insect, but can't be placed in any existing insect order.
		The name Mantophasmatodea was given because of the superficial similarity between praying mantises and stick insects (phasmids).
		Colleague Dr Kim Pullen suggested Mantophasmatodea could be one of a group of insects that have a "Gondwanan distribution".
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s535354.htm (505 words)

	: : INSECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The discovery of the new insect order Mantophasmatodea must rank as one of the most important and exciting biological findings of the decade.
		Although European amber fossils containing immature Mantophasmatodea had been described in 1997, they were, at the time, not recognized as belonging to a new order.
		The phylogenetic relationships between the known species of Heelwalker, and the evolutionary relationship of this new order to the other insect orders is being studied using DNA and hormone sequencing, the embryonic development, and many aspects of behavior, life history, and habitats.
	www.ice2008.org.za /Insect.htm (1002 words)

	Mantophasmatodea
		He states that mantophasmids "bridge the chasm between mantids and their kin", and that "far from creating a new order, they help demonstrate quite clearly that phasmids, mantids, roaches and termites are all closely related."(Hamilton, 2003).
		The conclusion I have come to is that Mantophasmatodea is a valid, relictual order (see proposed phylogeny of Orthopteroids) It is intermediate between Grylloblattodea and Phasmatodea.
		A contrary arguement in favor of Mantophasmatodea as a basal suborder or family of the order Phasmatodea.
	www.utoronto.ca /forest/termite/Mantophasmatodea.html (1678 words)

	Entomologists amazed by new insect order from Namaqualand
		The recent recognition of a new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, has been dubbed as "one of the most exciting" recent discoveries in Zoology, boosting the total number of insect orders (e.g.
		The formal description by entomologists of the fairly large, wingless creatures, which to the untrained eye resembles a cross between a grasshopper and a praying mantis, is the first description of an insect order since the discovery of ice crawlers (Grylloblattodea) in 1914, almost a century ago.
		The apparent centre of distribution of the group in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa adds yet another biological jewel to the already impressive concentration of endemic plants and insects of this region.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2002/october/insect.htm (680 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| New insect order discovered
		The bugs are thought to eat other insects since the stomach contents in some of the specimens studied to date included leg parts.
		Scientists have so far named two species (Mantophasmatodea zephyra and Mantophasmatodea subsolana) in the new order, and put a third insect, the Baltic specimen, in its own genus (Raptophasma), a slightly more general grouping.
		Living populations of the insects were found in western Namibia on the Brandberg Mountain during an expedition funded by Conservation International.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/1937150.stm (439 words)

	Heel Walkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ing wings, the Mantophasmatodea belong to the Pterygota,
		have lost their wings secondarily (such as Mantophasmatodea).
		It is unclear which other insect order is the closest relative of
	www.theinsectencyclopedia.com /pg_0193.htm (314 words)

	Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive - Creation Magazine
		The find triggered the description of a new taxonomic order, Mantophasmatodea, to accommodate both the living species and the amber fossils (previously unidentified), bringing the number of insect orders to 31.
		Their placement in a new insect order has been questioned by some entomologists, but others respond that they do not fit into any other order.
		The entomologists who identified and placed the insects in the new order Mantophasmatodea seem to have originally applied the term to embrace all species in the new grouping (Ref. 3).
	www.creationontheweb.com /content/view/162 (1325 words)

	A wingless wonder has them in awe - smh.com.au
		Although the insects appear to have been more widespread in the past, scientists have verified only that the creatures are living in the mountains of Namibia.
		Oliver Zompro, a postgraduate student at Max Planck, who discovered the new group while studying with Dr Adis, was flummoxed when he first tried to identify the creature he found in a 45-million-year-old piece of Baltic amber.
		Dr Adis said researchers were already out, with pictures of Mantophasmatodea in hand, searching for new species of the group in Brazil.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/18/1019020686934.html (350 words)

	Settling in 19 September 2002
		For the last two weeks, Mike Picker has been hosting the German scientist, Klaus, that described Mantophasmatodea, the newest insect order.
		I'm not sure if this is going to hold water once they look at the morphology of more than one male and female.
		Klaus says that Mantophasmatodea has none of the apomorphies of any of the current orthopteroid orders.
	entomology.ucdavis.edu /morita/ZA/letters/settle.html (489 words)

	Conservation International - CI Newsroom - Press Releases - New Insect Order Discovered for First Time Since 1915
		Mantophasmatodea, a predatory animal which best resembles a mix between a stick insect and a preying mantis, was originally found by Oliver Zompro, a doctoral student at the Max-Planck Institute for Limnology in Ploen, Germany in a 45-million year old piece of Baltic amber.
		Subsequently, the existence of a living population of these insects was discovered on the Brandberg Mountain in western Namibia by a team of scientists from the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek.
		The enlarged front legs of this insect serve to grab and crush prey, which consists of spiders and small insects.
	www.conservation.org /xp/news/press_releases/2002/041702.xml (744 words)

	Heel Walkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mantophasmatodea essentially live singly, but a male and a
		Mantophasmatodea eat other insects of various kinds, up
		As of 2002, no species of Mantophasmatodea were listed
	www.theinsectencyclopedia.com /pg_0195.htm (376 words)

	Max-Planck doctoral student discovers 'living fossils'
		For the first time in 87 years scientists have found insects which cannot be allocated to any known insect order.
		According to entomologists such as Piotr Naskrecki, director of the "Invertebrate Diversity Initiative" in the species protection organisation, "Conservation International", this discovery is akin to "finding a mammoth or a sabre-toothed tiger today".
		This new order, christened Mantophasmatodea, brings the number of insect orders known throughout the world to 31.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-04/m-mds041702.php (1343 words)

	Mantophasmatodea
		Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order with extant members in the afrotropics.
		The Taxonomy, Genitalic Morphology and Phylogenetic Relationships of Southern African Mantophasmatodea (Insecta).
		Mantophasmatodea and phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects.
	tolweb.org /Mantophasmatodea/8251 (253 words)

	Mantophasmatodea - Wikispecies
		Mantophasmatodea is the latest Insecta order to have been described in 2002.
		Only 13 species are known, and they have been divided into 10 genera.
		For more informations about Mantophasmatodea, see this page of the [Iziko Museums of Cape Town].
	species.wikimedia.org /wiki/Mantophasmatodea (67 words)

	Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order? -- Tilgner and Klass 297 (5582): 731 -- Science
		Response: A cladistic analysis testing the placement and ordinal status of Mantophasmatodea would be highly desirable, but
		the phylogenetic position of Mantophasmatodea is by evaluating
		Of course, one cannot categorically exclude that future research will reveal Mantophasmatodea to be modified Orthoptera--in
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/297/5582/731a (767 words)

	Mantophasmatodea Insect Fossils Gallery - Gladiator
		The new millennium has marked a major milestone in entomology with the discovery of a new order of insect, Mantophasmatodea.
		The Mantophasmatodea's relation to other insects is uncertain, but current conjecture is that it is most closely related to Phasmida (stick insects) and the Grylloblattodea.
		However, it differs from a Phasmida in that its first body segment is the largest.
	www.fossilmuseum.net /Fossil_Galleries/Insect_Galleries_by_Order/Mantophasmatodea/Mantophasmatodea.htm (245 words)

	Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The find triggered the description of a new taxonomic order, Mantophasmatodea, to accommodate both the living species and the amber fossils (previously unidentified), bringing the number of insect orders to 31. Klass, K.-D., Zompro, O., Kristensen, N.P. and Adis, J., Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order with extant members in the Afrotropics, Science 296(5572):1456–1459, 2002.
		Their placement in a new insect order has been questioned by some entomologists, but others respond that they do not fit into any other order. Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order?, Science 297(5582):731, 2002.
		Since the Namibia discovery, living representatives of Mantophasmatodea have been found in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. Picker, M.D., Colville, J.F., van Noort, S., Mantophasmatodea now in South Africa, Science 297(5586):1475, 2002.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v25/i2/gladiator.asp (859 words)

	Mantophasmatodea the newly discovered insect! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Oliver Zompro from the Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Germany holds a newly-discovered insect called Mantophasmatodea, which has been dubbed "gladiator" by the scientists who discovered it.
		Scientists from the National Museum of Namibia, which led the expedition, said they uncovered the new inspect species in Namibia's remote Brandberg mountains.
		Live and dead specimens of the insect will be sent on loan to Germany for study.
	weach.de /forum/messages/34.html (166 words)

	blivet radio
		"So far, the members of the 31st insect order, dubbed Mantophasmatodea, fall into two genera and three species, making this the smallest insect order on record.
		But exactly how the new group relates to the other orders remains to be determined--a task that may become easier as additional members are identified.
		Incredibly, an expedition to western Namibia's Brandberg Mountain recently turned up living representatives of the Mantophasmatodea.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100699/2002/04/20.html (315 words)

	april2002/page14.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thought to be feeding on spiders and other insects that are smaller its own body size, “the gladiator” is carnivorous and nocturnal.
		It lives at the base of clumps of grass that grow in rock crevices at the summits of the Brandberg Mountains of Namibia.
		Up to now, 3 new species have been named for certain; Mantophasmatodea zephyra, Mantophasmatodea subsolona and Raptophasma zompro, each of which is – unlike their close relatives – carnivorous and comparatively faster-moving.
	www.robcol.k12.tr /publications/krobertea/Fall2002/page14.htm (801 words)

	Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics -- Klass et al. 296 (5572): 1456 -- Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order with Extant Members in the Afrotropics -- Klass et al.
		A new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is described on the basis of museum specimens of a new genus with two species: Mantophasma
		assigned to the Mantophasmatodea, revealing a wider previous range
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/abstract/296/5572/1456 (303 words)

	Checklist: South African Mantophasmatodeans (Mantophasmatodea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Information about the Mantophasmatodea can be obtained from
		Order: MANTOPHASMATODEA Zompro, Klass, Kristensen & Addis, 2002
		This is part of A Catalogue of South African Insects
	www.ru.ac.za /academic/departments/zooento/Martin/mantophasmatodea.html (46 words)

	Planet Ark Environmental News Pictures: New Insect Called Mantophasmatodea Discovered in Namibia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Planet Ark Environmental News Pictures: New Insect Called Mantophasmatodea Discovered in Namibia
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		The newly-discovered insect called Mantophasmatodea, which has been dubbed "gladiator" by the scientists who dicovered it.
	www.planetark.org /envpicstory.cfm/newsid/15201 (343 words)

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