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Newly Hatched Praying Mantis

Stagmomantis limbata

Photo by Graham Monroe
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Field Notes

Description:

Very young mantises just hatched from eggs. They had brown colors.

Habitat:

They were on an overhanging strip of wood on the outside of a building.

Notes:

They appeared to have hatched right before we found them.

Reference Links:

Mantids - Mantodea - Overview, Stagmomantis limbata - Wikipedia, Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada by Kris Anderson - Research Pr…

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Graham Monroe
No this is not an adult. There were several small mantises right by a set of eggs, so it appeared that they had just hatched. I do not know the ID so I am going with Kris Anderson's suggestion because it looks like he knows what he's talking about.
Eduardo9
Do you have a adult male Limbata mantis?
Kris Anderson
Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1836) “Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada” https://www.researchgate.net/project/Praying-Mantises-of-the-United-States-and-Canada

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