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maybon

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Hey I want to make care sheets for every common species that is kept by breeders/mantis owners and was wondering if any and what to add to this list I already have

  1. Acanthops falcata – South American Dead Leaf Mantis
  2. Acanthops fuscifolia – Tropical Dead Leaf Mantis
  3. Acanthops tuberculata – Tropical Dead Leaf Mantis
  4. Acontista multicolour – Many Coloured Ant Mantis
  5. Acromantis formosana – Taiwanese Flower Mantis
  6. Acromantis gestri – Thai Boxer Mantis
  7. Alalomantis muta – Cameroon Mantis
  8. Asiadodis squilla – Asian Shield Mantis
  9. Blepharopsis mendica – Thistle Mantis or Devils Flower Mantis
  10. Brunneria borealis – Brunner’s Stick Mantis
  11. Brunneria subaptera – Stick Mantis
  12. Choeradodis rhombicollis – South American Hooded Mantis or Peruvian Shield Mantis
  13. Choeradodis stalii – Tropical Shield Mantis
  14. Cilnia humeralis – Wide Arm Mantis
  15. Creobroter elongata – Flower Mantis
  16. Creobroter gemmatus – Indian Flower Mantis
  17. Creobroter meleagris – Flower Mantis
  18. Creobroter pictipennis – Indian Flower Mantis
  19. Creobroter sp – Flower Mantis
  20. Decimiana bolivari – Dead Leaf Mantis
  21. Deroplatys angustata – Dead Leaf Mantis
  22. Deroplatys desiccata – Dead Leaf Mantis
  23. Deroplatys lobata – Malaysian Dead Leaf Mantis
  24. Deroplatys truncata – Dead Leaf Mantis
  25. Empusa fasciata – Cone Head Mantis
  26. Empusa pennata – Cone Head Mantis
  27. Ephestiasula pictipes – Purple Boxer Mantis
  28. Eremiaphila sp. – Pebble Mantis
  29. Euchomenella sp. – Malaysian Long Neck Mantis or Giraffe Mantis
  30. Gonatista grisea – Florida Bark Mantis or Grizzled Mantis
  31. Gongylus gongylodes – Wandering Violin Mantis
  32. Hestiasula brunneriana – Indian Unicorn Boxer Mantis
  33. Heterochaeta sp. – Stick Mantis
  34. Hierodula grandis – Giant Asian Mantis
  35. Hierodula membranacea – Giant Asian Mantis
  36. Hierodula multispina – Chinese Giant Mantis
  37. Hierodula parviceps – Philippine Marbled Mantis
  38. Hierodula patellifera – Indochina Mantis or Asian Mantis
  39. Hierodula salomonis – Jade Mantis
  40. Holaptilon pusillulum – Jumpy Mantis
  41. Hymenopus coronatus – Orchid Mantis
  42. Idolomantis diabolica – Devils Flower Mantis
  43. Iris oratoria – Mediterranean Mantis
  44. Litaneutria minor – Agile Ground Mantis
  45. Liturgusa lichenalis – Lichen Mantis
  46. Mantis religiosa – European Mantis
  47. Miomantis abyssinica – Egyptian Mantis
  48. Miomantis binotata – African Pinstripe Mantis
  49. Miomantis caffra – Springbok Mantis or South African Mantis
  50. Miomantis paykullii – Egyptian Mantis
  51. Odontomantis planiceps – Asian Ant Mantis
  52. Oligonicella scudderi – Scudder’s Mantis
  53. Omomantis zebrata – Zebra Mantis
  54. Orthodera novaezealandiae – New Zealand Garden Mantis
  55. Otomantis sp. – Boxer Mantis
  56. Oxyopsis gracilis – South American Green Mantis
  57. Oxyopsis peruviana – Peruvian Pointed Eyed Mantis
  58. Oxyothespis dumonti – North African Grass Mantis
  59. Oxypilus distinctus – Gambian Boxer Mantis
  60. Parasphendale affinis – African Banded Mantis
  61. Parasphendale agrionina – African Budwing Mantis
  62. Paratoxodera cornicollis – Giant Malaysian Stick Mantis
  63. Phyllocrania paradoxa – Ghost Mantis
  64. Phyllovates chlorophaea – Unicorn Mantis
  65. Plistospilota guineensis – Mega Mantis
  66. Pnigomantis medioconstricta – Indonesia Double Shield Mantis
  67. Polyspilota aeruginosa – Madagascan Marbled Mantis
  68. Polyspilota griffinii – Griffin Mantis
  69. Popa spurca – African Twig Mantis
  70. Pseudempusa pinnapavonis – Peacock Mantis
  71. Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii – Spiny Flower Mantis or #9 Mantis
  72. Pseudoharpax virescens – Gambian Spotted Eye Flower Mantis
  73. Pseudovates arizonae – Arizona Unicorn Mantis
  74. Rhombodera basalis – Giant Malaysian Shield Mantis
  75. Rhombodera extensicollis – Giant Shield Mantis
  76. Rhombodera megaera – Giant Shield Mantis
  77. Rhombodera sp – Shield Mantis
  78. Rivetina baetica – Ground Mantis
  79. Schizocephala bicornis – Indian Grass Mantis
  80. Sinomantis denticulata – Glass Mantis
  81. Sphodromantis lineola – African lined Mantis
  82. Sphodromantis sp. – Blue Flash
  83. Sphodromantis viridis – African Mantis
  84. Stagmatoptera biocellata – South American Eyed Mantis
  85. Stagmomantis californica – California Mantis
  86. Stagmomantis carolina – Carolina Mantis
  87. Stagmomantis floridensis – Florida Mantis
  88. Stagmomantis limbata – Arizona Mantis or Bordered Mantis
  89. Statilia maculata – Asian Grass Mantis
  90. Statilia nemoralis – Asian Jumping Mantis
  91. Sybilla pretiosa – Cryptic Mantis
  92. Tarachodes sp. – African Bark Mantis or Tanzanian Ground Mantis
  93. Tarachodula pantherina – Bush Panther Mantis
  94. Taumantis sigiana – Lime Green Mantis
  95. Tenodera angustipennis – Narrow Winged Mantis
  96. Tenodera sinensis – Chinese Mantis
  97. Theopompa servillei – Asian Bark Mantis
  98. Theopropus elegans – Banded Flower Mantis or Asian Boxer Mantis
  99. Thesprotia graminis – North American Grass Mantis
  100. Toxodera denticulata – Giant Malaysian Stick Mantis
  101. Yersiniops solitarium – Horned Ground Mantis
  102. Yersiniops sophronicum – Yersin’s Ground Mantis
  103. Yersiniops sphodronica – Micromantis
  104. Archimantis latistyla – large brown mantis
  105. Ciulfina sp – tree running mantis
  106. Hierodula majuscula – giant green mantis
  107. Kongobatha diademata – snake mantis
  108. Neomantis australis – net winged mantis
  109. Orthodera ministralis – garden mantis
  110. Paraoxypilus sp – boxer bark mantis
  111. Pseudomantis albofimbriata – false garden mantis
  112. Sphodropoda tristis – burying mantis
  113. Tenodera australasiae – purple winged mantis

If you can think of any extras that would be awesome, thanks.

P.S these are linked to care sheets for the blue names, if you want to check them out. If you would like a care sheet done on a species in gray or not on the list let me know through PM or post in this thread.

 
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Mega Mantis (Plistospilota guineensis) not real common but a few people do or have kept them, like me. :)
Really! Are you doing well with them?Maybon on your website the Pnigomantis medioconstricta care sheet says "This species is native to an Indian island called the island of Flores." It is Indonesian island. And you said on the Blue Flash care sheet that both female and male Blue Flash are 6cm long. My male is about 74.7mm long. Idolomantis diabolica also live in Kenya.

 
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Thanks, I have made all the changes to the list. I guess this means I haven't missed any of the major mantids if there is only one suggestion :D

 
I would say take off Alamomantis as I have never seen it legitimately for sale.

 
I'm raising Theopropus elegans. It's pretty much a mash-up of a creobroter and a wahlbergii with the size difference in sexes of the orchid mantis. Very interesting little beasts.

 
Edited list from all the suggestions, 78 species! Lot's of work to do now research wise, if anyone has any info on the not linked ones let me know either here or in a private message.

Thanks yet again to everyone who is being helpful and supportive, hopefully I can repay the favour one day when you are searching for some knowledge.

 
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Miomantis paykullii :) Probably could just do one care sheet for all the mios, no?

What a huge undertaking! It'll be a great reference when you're done though.

 
@ happy1892: Last year I had 10 Plistospilota guineensis L2's shipped to me from overseas(Poland) but only 4 made it to me alive and a few day's later I lost another due to the long trip, then 2 months later one mismolted but lived about a week in a bad state(deformed) I was hoping it may correct itself in the next molt, but that was not in the cards, so death was a release for that one. The 2 remaining ones made it to adult but both were males :( so since I was shipping some stuff to a friend(Henry)anyway, I sent him one of the males to admire and care for and he loved him, he quickly made him his little side kick and let him free roam frequently, but alas his Mega buddy went missing only to be found with his head stuck in the back of his computer so then he had a headless Mega side kick and I'm sure you can figure out the outcome on that one.

Mine lived out his whole life to old age(over a year old) in his enclosure 90% of the time as I have a cat so free range can spell trouble, he died just a few day's ago as a matter of fact, RIP...

@Maybon: Plistospilota guineensis like it on the dry side, misting maybe once a week kinda like Gongy, but they don't need the high heat room temp(72-78) is fine, no special RH required too high is not recommended actually. Males get to about 5-6 inches and females 6-7 inches and sometimes even larger, they will eat flying food but need alot of it so mixing that with crickets or other large pray is best, and they seem to be pretty long lived as far as mantis go, a year plus. Color is brownish green that would camouflage very well on a tree or brush/bushes. Hope that helps?

 
@ happy1892: Last year I had 10 Plistospilota guineensis L2's shipped to me from overseas(Poland) but only 4 made it to me alive and a few day's later I lost another due to the long trip, then 2 months later one mismolted but lived about a week in a bad state(deformed) I was hoping it may correct itself in the next molt, but that was not in the cards, so death was a release for that one. The 2 remaining ones made it to adult but both were males :( so since I was shipping some stuff to a friend(Henry)anyway, I sent him one of the males to admire and care for and he loved him, he quickly made him his little side kick and let him free roam frequently, but alas his Mega buddy went missing only to be found with his head stuck in the back of his computer so then he had a headless Mega side kick and I'm sure you can figure out the outcome on that one.

Mine lived out his whole life to old age(over a year old) in his enclosure 90% of the time as I have a cat so free range can spell trouble, he died just a few day's ago as a matter of fact, RIP...
Sorry for your loss.
 
Lots of the information is probably wrong. It is good that you are doing this. In the size section I would have one for males and another for females. And in the Life Span section I would make one for males and another for females. You wrote on Pnigomantis medioconstricta care sheet "The ootheca of this species will hatch 100 nymphs " I would write the ootheca of this species will hatch about 100 nymphs. The common names are supposed to be capitalized like Double Shield Mantis and European Mantis. In the Acromantis formosana care sheet you wrote "Females can reach 7cm and males 5cm in length." I am sure they are a lot shorter maybe females are about 3cm long. In Pnigomantis medioconstricta you wrote that they can grow to 100mm in length. My females were about 86mm long including the wings, that actually makes a difference. Most of the mantids you wrote were 100mm long are probably shorter. I would say that male Sphodromantis sp."Blue Flash" are about 75mm long. I guess females are about 8cm long. I guess female Sphodromantis lineola are about 85mm long. For Mantis religiosa care sheet you wrote Mantis religinosa, I would change that. I have read that Females Parasphendale agrionina grow up to 6-7 cm long while males stop at 3-4 cm. You wrote that Males can reach up to 5cm while females can reach 8cm in length. It might be better if you have a pattern like females grow ___ in length while males grow to ___ in length or the other way around. For Tenodera sinensis females are about 95mm long while males are over 70mm long. Female European Mantids are about 65mm long while males are 50mm long.

 
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Thanks for all the info, I am just going on what people have said online and other care sheets out there as I don't have and can't legally get any of those species, appreciate the help. Some of it is bound to be wrong, but hopefully when people spot that like you they will tell me and eventually the list will be full of accurate info.

I have made most of the additions, I will add the male/female size section later and same with the male/female life span.

As for the budwing format I agree that I should have a set format to do things and have got one now (the budwing was the first one I made). I will edit everything up later to a proper format and flowing order.

With size, I wanted to keep sizes simple so if something was 95-99mm I would round it up and 91-94 I would round down. I assume there is variation and that some of the species can get the 5mm larger than their siblings.

 
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Your doing at GREAT JOB :clap: !!! I can't imagine all the time and work it takes to do such a project, so keep on keep'n on.

 
Thanks for all the info, I am just going on what people have said online and other care sheets out there as I don't have and can't legally get any of those species, appreciate the help. Some of it is bound to be wrong, but hopefully when people spot that like you they will tell me and eventually the list will be full of accurate info.

I have made most of the additions, I will add the male/female size section later and same with the male/female life span.

As for the budwing format I agree that I should have a set format to do things and have got one now (the budwing was the first one I made). I will edit everything up later to a proper format and flowing order.

With size, I wanted to keep sizes simple so if something was 95-99mm I would round it up and 91-94 I would round down. I assume there is variation and that some of the species can get the 5mm larger than their siblings.
A few millimeters makes a difference. Why would you want it to be simple? It is already very simple. And that is why people use millimeters instead of centimeters. All of the female Tenodera sinensis and the ones in South Korea that might be T. aridifolia I have caught were 95mm long except one brown female that was 96mm long (I have caught many).
 
Precarious wrote Adults are just over 3" (over 4" if you count their unique fat antennae) and able to take an adult cricket! I just searched how long 3 inches is in cm and it is 7.62 cm. So I would write that they are about 77mm or 78mm long. You wrote in Brunneria borealis "This species reproduces through parthenogenesis which means there are no males of the species and the females produce asexually to make essentially an ootheca of clones." I do not think that means there are no males but there are no males. Miomantis pakulii can reproduce asexually but they have males. I have not heard of Brunneria borealis eating each other the same size. For Deroplatys sp. I would write Dead Leaf Mantis as the common name because Malaysian Dead Leaf Mantis is for Deroplatys lobata. I would not write This species is native to Malaysia for Deroplatys sp. because there are many species in the genus Deroplatys. 70mm is the normal length for male Tenodera sinensis they can maybe be longer. For the care sheets like Creobroter sp – Flower Mantis I would write each species in that genus. In the Choeradodis rhombicollis care sheet you wrote "This species is native to Southern America." It is South America. Maybe you mean Southern South America? If you make a care sheet for Stagmomantis carolina my adult females are 50-52mm long. Only one is 50mm long (she did not eat much). There are two sub-adult females that are huge compared to the others. They do fine when I did not mist them when they were L2-adult (I live in a humid climate). L1 Stagmomantis carolina nymphs need Drosophila melanogaster. I have seen only one L1 nymph catch and eat a small Drosophila hydei fruit fly. I have seen them eat each other a few times but they would not eat small Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. Wait two days after they hatch then try to feed them.

 
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