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Species Brunneria borealis - Brunner's Mantis

Brunneria borealis Egg case - Brunneria borealis - female Brunners Mantis - Brunneria borealis - female Stick Mantis Possible Brunner's? - Brunneria borealis Brunner's mantis - Brunneria borealis - female Brunneria borealis large stick-like mantis - head dorsal - Brunneria borealis - female Tiny mantid - Brunneria borealis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Mantodea (Mantids)
Family Coptopterygidae
Genus Brunneria (Brunner's Stick Mantis)
Species borealis (Brunner's Mantis)
Other Common Names
Northern Grass Mantid, Walking-stick Mantis
Explanation of Names
Brunneria borealis Scudder 1896
Size
65-90 mm
Identification
Similar to Grass Mantid, but has distinctive fine serations along sides of thorax, is larger, and reproduces by parthenogenesis; males are unknown. Thick antennal base characterizes this species. Wings reduced--flightless.
Range
se US (NC-FL-TX) to Mexico
Habitat
Meadows with tall grass, especially Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Season
Sep-Oct in NC(1)
Food
Orthoptera is prey of preference(2)
Life Cycle
parthenogenetic; males unknown; juveniles escape through the point of egg case(2)
shape of ootheca distinctive, with a horn-like projection on one end
Works Cited
1.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
2.Insects of the Texas Lost Pines (W.L. Moody, Jr., Natural History Series, No. 33)
Stephen W. Taber, Scott B. Fleenor. 2003. M University Press.