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Chinese Mantid (eating a katydid)

Tenodera sinensis sinensis

Photo by Geodialist
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Description:

A Chinese Mantid spotted along the boardwalk that goes through the central wetland area at Huntley Meadows Park. The three-photo set is shown in reverse chronological order. Photo 1 (of 3) shows the mantid eating a Handsome Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum pulchellum). Special thanks to "Small Wonders" for identifying the katydid! Related Resources: 1) Handsome Meadow Katydid http://bugguide.net/node/view/9493 2) Small Wonders http://www.projectnoah.org/users/Small%20Wonders

Habitat:

Huntley Meadows Park, a 1,425 acre wetland area in Fairfax County, Virginia USA. Related Resource: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/huntley/

Notes:

Copyright © 2013 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved. www.wsanford.com

Reference Links:

Mantis, Subspecies Tenodera sinensis sinensis - Chinese Mantid - BugGuide.Net

Species ID Suggestions

Chinese Mantid

Tenodera sinensis

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ForestDragon
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Comments (8)
Geodialist
Thanks for the invitation, ForestDragon! Done.
ForestDragon
Please consider adding this to the Marvelous Mantids of the World mission! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/15738247
Mr. Goldfish
Oh, I just found a small female Chinese Mantis a few minutes ago! I found a bigger brown female Chinese Mantis yesterday. Interesting right? They are common here in Wake Forest NC
Mr. Goldfish
OK, haha. I am not certain from these pics though. I have seen pictures of Tenodera angustipennis with a kind of yellow dot instead of orange. Yours is probably Chinese Mantis because they are much more common. But in some areas the T. angustipennis might be kind of common just kind of scattered or consentrated in some places. In the title of your picture you wrote Tenodera sinensis sinensis. I do not think there is another subspecies. Typo?
Geodialist
Gee, is my face red or what? Turns out I mixed up the two species when I compared photos. (Oh no, are the "Senior Moments" starting already?) I stand corrected: ForestDragon and Mr. Goldfish correctly ID-ed the species of mantid. Thanks, guys!
Mr. Goldfish
How is yours different? It does not look like a Mantis religiosa to me.
Geodialist
Thanks for the species ID, "ForestDragon." I don't think my specimen is a Chinese Mantid. I looked closely at the photos on BugGuide; in contrast with my photos, the two specimens appear to differ in several key characteristics. If you're interested in continuing the conversation, then I can list the apparent differences in a follow-up comment.

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PublishedNovember 6, 2013

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