“…Recently, over 2,000 species, 450 genera, 59 subfamilies in 29 families are known through the distribution range (Wu & Liu, 2017;Schwarz & Roy, 2019). Among them, approximately 300 species were recorded in Southeast Asia and 75 species, 47 genera in 10 families have been recorded from Thailand (Mukherjee et al, 1995;Roy, 2009;Sureshan & Sambath, 2009;Ehrmann, 2002;Mukherjee et al, 2014;Ehrmann & Borer, 2015;Ghate et al, 2019;Mukherjee et al, 2017;Schwarz & Ehrmann, 2017;Schwarz et al, 2018;Vermeersch et al, 2019). Five new to Thailand species of the praying mantis are found in the collection of the Natural History Museum of the National Science Museum.…”