Stagmomantis limbata

Stagmomantis limbata
Adult female Stagmomantis limbata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Stagmomantinae
Genus: Stagmomantis
Species: S. limbata
Binomial name
Stagmomantis limbata
Hahn, 1835
Synonyms
  • Stagmomantis asteca (Saussure, 1859)
  • Stagmomantis cellularis (Burmeister, 1838)
  • Stagmomantis viridimargo (Burmeister, 1838)

Stagmomantis limbata, common name bordered mantis or Arizona mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to North America.[1][2][3] This beneficial insect is green or beige in color and grows up to around 3 inches long.[4]

Behavior

Stagmomantis limbata are attracted to lights, and males often fly to lights in numbers, but females are unable to fly.[5]

Description

S. limbata is a moderately large mantid. The facial plate (below and between antennae) is about twice as wide as it is long, typical of the genus, though the eyes are not as protruding as the Carolina Mantid's. Females are most often fairly plain green (often with a yellowish abdomen), but sometimes gray, or light brown, with dark spot in middle of the tegmina, which do not completely cover the wide abdomen. Hind wings may be checkered or striped yellow.

Males are slender, long-winged, and variable in color, but most often green and brown with the sides of the folded tegmina green and top brownish (may be solid gray, brown, green, or any combination of these). Abdomen without prominent dark spots on top. The wings are transparent, usually with cloudy brownish spots on outer half.[6]

Habitat

Variable, often in open semi-arid areas in tall forbs, shrubs, or trees, but more abundant in lusher, often riparian and wooded areas of streamsides, roadsides, canyons, in towns, etc.[7]

Range

Texas to Southern California, north into Colorado and Utah, south into Mexico.[8]

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Texas A&M University
  2. ↑ Tree of Life
  3. ↑ Stagmomantis limbata
  4. ↑ Mantis Place
  5. ↑ http://bugguide.net/node/view/149885
  6. ↑ http://bugguide.net/node/view/149885
  7. ↑ http://bugguide.net/node/view/149885
  8. ↑ http://bugguide.net/node/view/149885


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