different mates..

Craig4106 · Sep 26, 2014

if 2 different types of mantis 's breed...will they produce viable of spring ?

Domanating · Sep 26, 2014

Nope

happy1892 · Sep 26, 2014

Some species can interbreed and make hybrids such as:

http://www.mantodea.ch/?tx_speciesdb_pi1[species]=139&tx_speciesdb_pi1[v]=species

soundspawn · Sep 26, 2014

happy1892 said:
Some species can interbreed and make hybrids such as:

http://www.mantodea.ch/?tx_speciesdb_pi1[species]=139&tx_speciesdb_pi1[v]=species

This is true but I don't know if their children would be viable (as in able to reproduce themselves) - I'll try to give the short version, so if you need sources or more info please just ask.

Speciation is when one species splits in to two species that can no longer interbreed, but this divergence happens over time... so there is technically a generation that can produce viable offspring interbreeding, and one year later their children can not any more (or ever again). Species that are genetically close can interbreed, however their children may not be fertile... it's a big moving target that changes every generation. There's also a crazy thing called ring species that happens where Species A can breed with B, and B can breed with C, but A and C can not breed. Check this out:

This salamander started as the cyan patch (picta). Over time it migrated south/southeast and genetically diverged (speciation). Now adays you can pick any specie from this image and breed it with approximately half of the other species in the image but not the other half. Green and red can not breed, but both green and red can breed with blue. It's freaky.

So in other words, the answer is a firm maybe.