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Mantid Egg Case

Family Mantidae

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CindyBinghamKeiser
Hi Reza, although overdue, welcome to Project Noah! Livan is correct, this is a Mantis Ootheca. We have two genus and several species here so it's difficult to ID to that level so I suggest entering the scientific name at the family level "Family: Mantidae".
LivanEscudero
This is the ootheca or egg case of a Mantid. see here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/342431/... You can change from other to arthropod

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