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Gladiators: A New Order of Insect: An Order is Born [Preview]

By Joachim Adis, Oliver Zompro, Esther Moombolah-Goagoses and Eugène Marais















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GLADIATORS

ANATOMY OF GLADIATORS shares many characteristics with that of grasshoppers, walkingsticks and mantises. But gladiators are different in critical ways from those and all other insect orders. A new order, Mantophasmatodea, was therefore announced in April. So far it contains at least three living and two extinct species.


This article was originally published with the title Gladiators: A New Order of Insect.



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