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''Manticora'' (often misspelled ''Mantichora'' following an unjustified spelling change in 1837) is a well-known genus of tiger beetle that is endemic to Africa. Its members are the largest of the subfamily. All species are darkly colored, nocturnal, and flightless. Males usually have exaggerated mandibles compared to the females, used for clasping during copulation. ==Taxonomy== This genus was among the first formally described by a pupil of Linneaus, Johan Christian Fabricius, in 1792. The name ''Manticora'' comes from the ancient Persian for the legendary man-eating Manticore. The first species of ''Manticora'' known to science was ''M. tuberculata'', originally described by De Geer in 1778 in the Linnean genus ''Carabus''. When Fabricius established ''Manticora'' he referred to the type species ''Carabus maxillosa'', a junior synonym of ''M. tuberculata''.
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