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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mantids (Mantodea) » Mantidae » Tenodera » Tenodera aridifolia » Chinese Mantid (Tenodera aridifolia sinensis)
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Chinese mantis male or female? - Tenodera aridifolia
Copyright © 2009 Vespula vulgaris

Chinese mantis male or female? - Tenodera aridifolia
Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
October 22, 2009
Size: 70 mm
This is the Chinese mantis but is this a female or male? I thought the brown ones were females... Her abdomen was a fraction of the size of the female on my butterfly bush who is gravid (has been there many weeks now, survived below freezing temps in the open, and still has yet to lay her eggs)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/342359

This one was spotted flying right past our window. They do not have a whole lot of stamina when it comes to flight!

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Chinese mantis male or female? - Tenodera aridifolia Chinese mantis male or female? - Tenodera aridifolia
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Contributed by Vespula vulgaris on 22 October, 2009 - 7:32pm
Last updated 23 October, 2009 - 2:47pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Vespula vulgaris, 23 October, 2009 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

sexting mantid
This seems to be a male becuase of it's thin abdemen.
… Noel Morales, 22 October, 2009 - 8:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Sexting mantid?!
What is he in high school now?! : D

Is the thin abdomen the only way to tell male from female?

Thanks
… Vespula vulgaris, 23 October, 2009 - 2:46pm login or register to post comments

 
sexing mantid...:)
Your welcome as far as I know females will be bulkier remeber they're eating for 100 to 300 babies. He s a senior LOL...
… Noel Morales, 29 October, 2009 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

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