English: Gladiators; Rock crawlers; Heelwalkers; Mantophasmids; Mantos.
Region: western South Africa, Namibia.
ZoologyMantophasmatodea are wingless, resemble a cross between praying mantids and phasmids.
TaxonomyMolecular evidence indicates that they are most closely related to the equally enigmatic group
Grylloblattodea.