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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mantids (Mantodea) » Mantidae » Stagmomantis » Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina)
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Carolina or Arizona Mantis? - Stagmomantis carolina - female
Copyright © 2017 Kala King

Carolina or Arizona Mantis? - Stagmomantis carolina - Female
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
September 13, 2016
Found on the side of the White Rock lake pier at Sunset Bay mid morning. I called it a Carolina mantis when I put it in iNaturalist because that is the species I'd found at the lake before. Someone challenged it as an Arizona Mantis. Can you weigh in please? Will add a second photo.

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Carolina or Arizona Mantis? - Stagmomantis carolina - female Carolina or Arizona Mantis? View 2 - Stagmomantis carolina - female
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Contributed by Kala King on 13 July, 2017 - 3:46pm
Last updated 13 July, 2017 - 10:42pm

Just Found One Of These Beauties In Saucier, MS!
I found this little guy on the side of my brick home and moved him to my porch so he could have a better chance of catching insects that swarm around my light fixtures at night..but he didn't seem interested..so I fed him some Harvestman spiders that cling to my porch ceiling and Katydids for a few nights and then moved him to one of my Mulberry trees. Loved having him around!
… Nightbird, 4 October, 2019 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

Stagmomantis carolina
An Arizona Mantis (Stagmomantis limbata) will have a well defined pale border along the wings and pronotum (the pronounced "neck"). The stigmata (the dark spot on the forewing in your image) will be dark on S. Carolina and pale on the female S. limbata. Here is a good example of S. limbata with which to compare your image.
… John Stanard, 13 July, 2017 - 10:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
I will put a link to this page on iNaturalist on my photo and hopefully convince the person who thought it was Arizona. I figured it was Carolina.
… Kala King, 13 July, 2017 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 13 July, 2017 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

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