Mantis identification
Mantis identification
Found this female in my backyard (Encinitas, California).
We are supposed to have a few local species, M.religiosa, and a Chinese mantis.
Can anyone tell the species? ?
We are supposed to have a few local species, M.religiosa, and a Chinese mantis.
Can anyone tell the species? ?
Re: Mantis identification
The short wings rule out religosa. Most of the Chinese mantis are bi-color.
It looks like either California mantis or Arizona mantis; I've not researched the identifiers for either. Here's images from San Diego County of mantids https://www.inaturalist.org/observation ... n_id=48111
There's a glitch in iNaturalist that when selecting Encinitas, it selects only the county park, so I had to go bigger (SD County).
It looks like either California mantis or Arizona mantis; I've not researched the identifiers for either. Here's images from San Diego County of mantids https://www.inaturalist.org/observation ... n_id=48111
There's a glitch in iNaturalist that when selecting Encinitas, it selects only the county park, so I had to go bigger (SD County).
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Re: Mantis identification
Chinese mantis- Tenodera sinensis and the European Mantis religosa are both introduced species, I've raised many sinensis, because those are the ones sold at nurseries for pest control, they always have had a brown color, what ever you have is probably a native.
I'd hang on to her and she may attract a male, or already be fertile.
I'd hang on to her and she may attract a male, or already be fertile.
Re: Mantis identification
Chuck and kevinkk,
This is almost certainly an Arizona mantis - Stagmomantis limbata:
there are dark marks on tegmina, while dark stripes on the dorsal side
of the abdomen (characteristic of S.californica) are absent.
Thank you both as always!
This is almost certainly an Arizona mantis - Stagmomantis limbata:
there are dark marks on tegmina, while dark stripes on the dorsal side
of the abdomen (characteristic of S.californica) are absent.
Thank you both as always!
- kevinkk
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Re: Mantis identification
Mantids are always interesting, I've released hundreds here at home, but on the Oregon coast, they never got out of L3 outdoors.
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