First assessment of the biodiversity of praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cameroon with DNA barcoding

Acknowledgments We would like to thank Nicolas Moulin (Muse´um national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) for providing unpublished barcode sequences of Mantodea from Cameroon, CAR and Gabon. Fieldwork in Cameroon would not have been possible without Anna Maňourova´ (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnap, Sweden), who helped organizing the fieldwork. We wish to thank Tchana family for the warmest welcome and hospitality in Yaounde´, and all the inhabitants of Ebogo II village who made material collection possible. We are grateful to Sergei Bimbirekov (Moscow, Russia) for taking magnificent pictures of praying mantises and Chris- tian Schwarz (Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany) for providing rare literature. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa (Museum der Natur Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) has lent us his expert opinion on the identity of horsehair worms. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Valeriy Govorov. Data curation: Valeriy Govorov, Evgeny Shcherbakov, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Funding acquisition: Petr Jansˇta, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Investigation: Valeriy Govorov. Methodology: Valeriy Govorov, Evgeny Shcherbakov, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Project administration: Valeriy Govorov, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Resources: Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Supervision: Evgeny Shcherbakov, Petr Jansˇta, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. Validation: Valeriy Govorov. Visualization: Valeriy Govorov. Writing – original draft: Valeriy Govorov. Writing – review & editing: Valeriy Govorov, Evgeny Shcherbakov, Petr Jansˇta, Barbora Černa´ Bolfikova´. References

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