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That's not even completely true for mantises either. An experiment in 1994 involved introducing male mantids to either starved or well fed females and only the underfed females ate their mates whereas the well fed ones didn't.

Bogleech actually brought this up when he discussed the spider that is most notorious for eating its mate:  Genus Latrodectus AKA the Widows