Meet Lotar, King Of The Insect World!
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Lotar, King Of The Insect World was, as his name indicated, the actual King of the actual Insect World, as it existed throughout Velandia.
A Giant Stick Praying Mantis (see Fig. 10), Lotar shared the basic anatomic structures common to Many adult insects:
Fig. 10: “Here you can see the body plan of a mantis clearly. This is an adult female of Sphodromantis baccettii.” (Copyright © 2019 Keeping Insects. All Rights Reserved)
A body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen)
Six legs
Wings
Two antennae
Compound eyes, and
A rigid exoskeleton.
However, his front legs were actually thorn-covered hooks called abducting legs or “raptoriales;” effectively, traps out of which large captive prey were unable to escape!
He was also able to freely rotate his characteristically triangular head upon his jointed neck more than 180 degrees (unique in the insect World!), which allowed him to stay perfectly still, while having a non-standard field of view in which to watch for the arrival of prey, wherever it appeared.
When he found himself in times of trouble, he would reassure himself consolingly, “All other insects have their heads fused to their thorax, and are incapable of such almost periscopic mobility. So there's always that!”
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