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== Anatomy == | == Anatomy == | ||
The male and female Gladiators are wingless insects, that have a body length of anywhere between 0.35-0.94 with out there antenna's. The female Gladiators are typically bigger than the males. Gladiators have antenna's with several different segments, the antenna's are thin and slender, almost thread like. Different sizes of albeit lacking ocelli, make up the Gladiators well developed compound eyes. To eat there prey the Gladiators have two mouth parts, the mandibulate and hypognathous. Both of these mouth parts are typically pointed downward in the Gladiators mouth for easier chewing. Gladiators also have a very unique abdomen because it is segmented in ten parts for males and a 11th reduced segment for the females. Three pairs of process valves that all together form a short ovipositor and in the eighth and ninth segment of the abdomen. They have a lattered claw like feature in the eighth segment of the abdomen from the third and second valve. Gladiators have a five segmented Tarsi,the foreleg and somewhat in the mid legs are distinctively thickened by the femora,with small,thin hind legs. The tibiae of the forelegs and mid legs help render the legs for grabbing prey by bearing on the inner surface opposing the femora. Five tarsomeres compromise the Tarsi, except for the three basal ones that are fused with grooves indicating borders. | |||
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* [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mantophasmatidae Mantophasmatidae] author unknown, Wikispecies, Accessed November 16, 2010. | * [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mantophasmatidae Mantophasmatidae] author unknown, Wikispecies, Accessed November 16, 2010. | ||
* [http://www. | * [http://www.jiffynotes.com/a_study_guides/book_notes/grze_03/grze_03_00193.html] Gale, Gale Group,2004. | ||
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