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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mantids (Mantodea) » Mantidae » Mantinae » Tenodera » Narrow-winged Mantis (Tenodera angustipennis)
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Ootheca. I hope that it is native - Tenodera angustipennis
Copyright © 2012 Beatriz Moisset

Ootheca. I hope that it is native - Tenodera angustipennis
Pennypack Restoration Trust, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
February 5, 2012
This appears to be a mantid ootheca. I hope that it belongs to a native species. Size, about 20 mm. Eggs or larvae inside, about 3 mm.

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Ootheca. I hope that it is native - Tenodera angustipennis Ootheca. I hope that it is native - Tenodera angustipennis Ootheca. I hope that it is native - Tenodera angustipennis
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 7 February, 2012 - 2:42pm
Last updated 6 January, 2019 - 7:04pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Oothecae and Hatchlings.
… Beatriz Moisset, 20 January, 2016 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Carolina Mantis. While the size is consistent with S. carolina, it is too damaged to be 100% certain. Mantids do not always make textbook, picture-perfect oothecae; they often lay them with the edges smeared/distorted. There are images of this in the guide.
… John Stanard, 13 September, 2015 - 7:45am login or register to post comments

Not Stagmomantis carolina
Probably Tenodera angustipennis
… Walter Nathaniel Long, 18 June, 2013 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 February, 2012 - 7:22am login or register to post comments

Stagmomantis
This appears to be the ootheca of a stagmomantis species. In PA it would be S. carolina, unless someone introduced another species.
… John Stanard, 7 February, 2012 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

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