mantispid การใช้

• Many mantispids are parasites of spider egg sacs.
• Mantispids that board spiders usually adopt positions on or near the base of the abdomen; some species may enter the spider's book lungs.
• All of the major groups of hunting spiders are attacked by spider-boarding mantispids; the egg sacs of web-building species are also entered by egg-sac penetrators.
• First-instar mantispids use two strategies to locate spider eggs : larvae may burrow directly through the silk of egg sacs they find, or they may board and be carried by female spiders prior to sac production ( phoresy ), entering the sac as it is being constructed.
• Many ground-dwelling insects, such as mole crickets ( Orthoptera : Gryllotalpidae ), nymphal cicadas ( Hemiptera : Cicadidae ), and scarab beetles ( Scarabaeidae ), have the tibiae of the forelegs ( protibiae ) enlarged and modified for digging ( fossorial ), whereas the forelegs of some predatory insects, such as mantispid lacewings ( Neuroptera ) and mantids ( Mantodea ), are specialized for seizing prey, or raptorial.