Bistanta is a previously monotypic genus of praying mantises in the family Thespidae that is native to Mexico and the Southwestern United States. It is represented by five species:
Bistanta is a previously monotypic genus of praying mantises in the family Thespidae that is native to Mexico and the Southwestern United States. It is represented by five species: Bistanta addenda (Anderson, 2022) Bistanta campestris (Anderson, 2022) Bistanta herema (Anderson, 2022) Bistanta mexicana (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894) Bistanta tolteca (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
== Distribution == Although mostly located in Mexico, species in Bistanta have been located in Central America, Arizona, Southern Texas, and some parts of New Mexico.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).