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Following up on Andrew's suggestion that it might be Stagmomantis limbata I found that that species should occur in this part of Mexico, in fact also much farther south, at least to Cuernavaca (see http://www.botanicus.org/primeocr/botanicu...0_01_00_162.txt ). It's known as the Bordered Mantid...

At http://www.backyardnature.net/n/07/070914mn.jpg you can see a mantid found on bushes near Jalpan, Queretaro, in north-central Mexico in a valley of the Eastern Sierra Madres on Thursday, September 13th. Is it anything special? Jim

It's been a pleasure watching this discussion take place and I appreciate very much everyone's interest, and the name suggestions. Until now I've had no particular interest in mantids but you can bet that I'll start paying more attention to them. We have many habitats here, from hot semidesert...

Hello everyone. This Sunday morning I awoke with this mantid on my screenwire window beneath a night-burning security lamp here in the arid Mexican state of Querétaro in the Eastern Sierra Madre Mountains of northeastern Mexico: I think it's a Unicorn Mantis, very close to Pseudovates...