#4166 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Carolina Mantis
Stagmomantis carolina
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
The Carolina mantis ( Stagmomantis carolina ) is a species of praying mantis of the subfamily Stagmomantinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 71,250 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Carolina Mantis
- scientific name
- Stagmomantis carolina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Mantodea
- family
- Mantidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 71,250
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Mantidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 119989, Wikidata Q580291, GBIF 1404940, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.