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Empusa pennicornis

Taxon: Empusa pennicornis
Author: Vakhtang Janjghava
Comment: Tbilisi, Nutsubidze Plato 5 mkr. 30.10.2015. Nymph. ID by Alisa Sanakoeva
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Scientific Name ID: 2280
Species: pennicornis
Taxon Rank: Species
Scientific Name Authorship: Pallas, 1773
Georgian Name: ბუმბულულვაშიანი ემპუზა
GBD Remarks:

Empusa pennicornis - the only local mantid species overwintering at a nymphal stage.


Reference of occurrence in Georgia: Battiston, R., & Massa, B. (2008). The Mantids of Caucasus (Insecta Mantodea). Atti dell Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, a, 258, 5-28.


Conservation Status

This section is under construction


National Red List Status of have not been evaluated