- Project Mantodea is a collaborative program to revise the classification of praying mantises (Mantodea) and is funded by a Revisionary Synthesis in Systematics (REVSYS) grant from the US National Science Foundation awarded to GJ Svenson (PI) and KB Miller (CoPI).
- This website is dedicated to providing project results and taxonomic resources to the broader community of researchers and the public.
Fieldwork Locations
Starting in 2001, a concerted effort began to sample praying mantis material from around the world in order to amass a broad scale sample of Mantodea diversity for molecular based phylogenetics. The resulting collection is approaching approximately 6,000 specimens representing all major lineages with both traditionally mounted and cryogenically preserved vouchers for long-term storage of DNA.
Below is a map of past sampling expeditions linked to photo galleries:
Click on red markers for Expedition Photo Galleries.
Blue markers are localities only.
