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• Mantis shrimp
  Mantis shrimp
  
  Mantis shrimp or stomatopods are marine crustaceans, the members of the order Stomatopoda. They are neither shrimp nor Praying mantis, but receive their name purely from the physical resemblance to both the terrestrial praying mantis and the shrimp....
  , also known as stomatopods, predatory crustaceans
• Mantidfly (Mantispidae), a small predatory insects whose front legs are similar to those of a praying mantis

• Mantis (DC Comics)
  Mantis (DC Comics)
  
  Mantis is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Forever People #2 , and was created by writer-artist Jack Kirby....
  , a supervillain in Jack Kirby's Fourth World
• Mantis (Marvel Comics)
  Mantis (Marvel Comics)
  
  Mantis is a fictional character, a superheroine in the Marvel Universe, and former member of the Avengers . She first appeared in Avengers #112 , drawn by Don Heck....
  , a member of The Avengers
  Avengers (comics)
  
  The Avengers is a team of fictional characters superhero characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Originally created using preexisting Marvel characters, variously created by writer-editor Stan Lee, artist and co-plotter Jack Kirby and others, the team first appearance in The Avengers #1 ....
  

• MANTIS, a Programming language
  Programming language
  
  A programming language is a machine-readable artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer....
   or an application generator marketed by Cincom
  Cincom
  
  Cincom Systems is a privately held, multinational, computer technology corporation founded in 1968 by Thomas M. Nies, Tom Richley and Claude Bogardus....
  
• Mantis Bug Tracker, a SQL database driven PHP bug tracking system

• Psycho Mantis
  List of Metal Gear Solid characters
  
  This is a list of characters appearing in the video game Metal Gear Solid . All characters were created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa; who has designed the characters for all subsequent Metal Gear Solid games....
  , a boss in the videogame Metal Gear Solid
• The name of an alien insect-like race in the real-time strategy computer game Conquest: Frontier Wars
  Conquest: Frontier Wars
  
  Conquest: Frontier Wars is a Real Time Strategy engine released in 2001 by Ubisoft and Fever Pitch Studios. The bulk of the development was done at Digital Anvil in Austin, Texas, a startup developer originally owned by Chris Roberts....
  
• XF5700 Mantis
  XF5700 Mantis
  
  XF5700 Mantis , is a space combat simulator made by MicroPlay Software in 1992....
  , a space sim by MicroPlay in 1992

• Mantis, the name of a pro wrestler for NWA Pro Wrestling Xpress
• Ultra Mantis, the name of a pro wrestler for Chikara Pro Wrestling
  Chikara Pro Wrestling
  
  CHIKARA is an United States professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their major events each year include, King of Trios in February, Aniversario in May, Young Lions Cup in June & Torneo Cibernetico in August....
  
• Northern Praying Mantis
  Northern Praying Mantis (martial art)
  
  Northern Praying Mantis is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis after its province of origin. It was created by Wang Lang and was named after the praying mantis, an insect, the aggressiveness of which inspired the style....
  , a martial art
• Southern Praying Mantis
  Southern Praying Mantis (martial art)
  
  Southern Praying Mantis is a Chinese martial art native to the Hakka communities of Southern China. Despite having the name ?Praying mantis?, this style is completely unrelated to the Northern Praying Mantis style....
  , a martial art

• The Mantis, one of the most elusive and deadly human-killing "mechs" (mechanical lifeforms) in Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford
  
  Gregory Benford is an American science fiction authors and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine....
  's Galactic Center Saga
  Galactic Center Saga
  
  The Galactic Center Saga is a series of books by author Gregory Benford detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life.* In the Ocean of Night ...
   novels.
• A dreamtime trickster
  Trickster
  
  In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spiritual being, man, woman, or anthropomorphism animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and norms of behavior....
   character in San (Bushmen
  Bushmen
  
  The Bushmen, San, Sho, Basarwa, Kung, or Khwe are indigenous people of southern Africa that spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola....
  ) folklore
• M.A.N.T.I.S.
  M.A.N.T.I.S.
  
  M.A.N.T.I.S. is a TV series that aired for one season on the Fox Broadcasting Company between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour TV television pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm....
  , a superhero television series
• Mantis
  Mantis (roller coaster)
  
  Mantis is a Steel roller coaster stand-up roller coaster roller coaster at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. It set several stand-up coaster records, including height , speed , steepest , and Roller coaster inversion ....
  , a very large roller coaster located at Cedar Point theme park in Sandusky, Ohio, USA
• Marcos Mantis GT
  Marcos Mantis GT
  
  The Marcos Mantis is a sports car produced by the British car company Marcos_. The GT version is a higher performance version of the Mantis. The name Mantis comes from the mantis insect and is to signify the performance of the Mantis' engine, a supercharged 4.6 litre V8 producing and of torque allowing the Mantis to accelerate from 0-60 m...
  , a British sports car
• Mantis, a monster from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  
  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an United States live-action television series, created for the American market, based on the 16th installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger....
   based on the praying mantis.
• BAE Mantis
  BAE Mantis
  
  The BAE Systems Mantis Unmanned Autonomous System Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator is a United Kingdom demonstrator programme for Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle technology....
  , an unmanned air vehicle developed by BAE Systems
  BAE Systems
  
  BAE Systems plc is a British defense contractor and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc....
  
• Mantis
  Mantis (album)
  
  Mantis is a studio album by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. The album was released on January 20, 2009. The album became available for pre-order on October 27, 2008....
  , the most recent studio album by progressive rock
  Progressive rock
  
  Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
  /jam band
  Jam band
  
  Jam bands are musical groups whose albums and live performances relate to a fan culture that originated with the 1960s group Grateful Dead and continued in the 1990s with Phish and similar bands....
   Umphrey's McGee
  Umphrey's McGee
  
  Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock/jam band originally from South Bend, Indiana, now based in Chicago, Illinois whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation."...
  .

See also

• Mantissa
  Mantissa
  
  Mantissa may refer to:* Mantissa * Significand, part of a floating-point number* Part of a common logarithm* A novel by John Fowles...
   (disambiguation)