Help...

[preacher]

Hi!

Could anyone please help me identify this nymph..?

Picture is quite bad, I know..

It's an east african species, that much I know. Nymph on picture is L3, and a little bit longer than an inch. Since hatching it has been straightbodied, never "curling" its tail. I think it might be Heterochaeta..?

/kind regards Preacher

 

[Rick]

Welcome to the site. Please introduce yourself in the introductions forum. I have no idea about the mantis. Looks like tenedora but you said Africa and nymphs can be hard to ID.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Yes looks like chinese to me to, and where ya from Preacher? And what do u preach?

 

[preacher]

Hi all!

well... yes I'm sure it's african. i got the Ooth from east africa, so..

What I'm preaching..?

when I'm not breeding mantids and such, I'm a vicar in the swedish church (Lutheran).

 

[hibiscusmile]

Way to go Preacher!

 

[ismart]

It does kinda look like a Tenodera sp.

 

[preacher]

Yeah, I know... But, as said, it's from an ootheca imported from east africa... Is it possible..?

 

[massaman]

could be another one of them african ooth scams but dont know for sure!

 

[agent A]

looks like tenodera to me!

 

[sbugir]

Or maybe its one of those African pygmy mantids? But it really does look like a chinese mantid.

 

[charleyandbecky]

Welcome from Georgia!

Rebecca

 

[Christian]

Heterochaeta... of course, what else. Everyone thinks that any unknown ooth from Africa must be Heterochaeta...

I am so tired...

Anyway, this is a Tenodera or Epitenodera nymph, as far as I can see it. It would be better to ask later, when they're adult, an ID is easier then.

 

[agent A]

It would be better to ask later, when they're adult, an ID is easier then.

agreed

 

[preacher]

Yes, of course it would be easier when they're older.. Then I might even see it myself.. No oothscam, since I know who's sent them. And, no, i don't think its Heterochaeta because I want it to be something special. (that kind of comments makes ME tired)The only reason I thought about it is because it would be unlikely that it's a tenodera ootheca picked in the wild of africa, and the fact that the nymphs, as said, is strightbodied and really big right from the start.

Thank you Georgia

/Preacher

 

[preacher]

Hi again!

Epitenodera sounds interesting.. I know of Epitenodera Gambiensis, but has no previous experience from them. Neither do I know how they look.. Are there more african Epitenodera species?

/Preacher

 

[Christian]

There are a few African Tenodera species, the most widespread being T. superstitiosa. Epitenodera species look superficially similar, but are slightly smaller. There are several described species spread throughout Africa.

 

[preacher]

Thanx!!

Found a picture of superstitiosa nymph, and it seems rigth on the spot..

I didn't know anything of them.

/Regards preacher