 The name "Manticora" comes from the ancient Persian for the legendary man-eating manticore.The first species of "Manticora" described was "M. tuberculata", originally described by Charles De Geer in 1778 in the Linnean genus "Carabus", to which it is only distantly related as presently defined.When Fabricius established "Manticora" he designated the species "Carabus maxillosa", a junior synonym of "M. tuberculata", as the type species.