There is this Orthoptera, Mantidae by E. Giglio-Tos (1927) that has keys for most mantis species around the world, it doesn't has the keys for all 20 Stagmomantis species (In fact the only US Stagmomantis sp I can find in the book is S. carolina), does the key still valid for the other species in this genus?
No. Giglio-Tos unnecessarily splitted Stagmomantis into 5 genera or so, and produced a lot of synonyms (e.g. Stagmomantis nordica for dark carolina). Using that key is very difficult, and some species are missing which they were described later.
Thanks ArkBlue.
Thanks. I was wondering about S. nordica too. I thought some of them are useful although very old publication, but as you said some species name have been revised afterwards. Unfortunately over here in the US, Stagmomantis sp study were mainly conducted by James Rehn and Morgan Hebard and those publication are very old as well.
the fantastic site with the largest collection of Mantodea pictures seems to be back:
Haha, thanks a lot.
The last two pages (just testing the links) worked for me.
I have the same thing with tenedora angustipennis. Captive bred is tiny compared to wild caught. Could also be differences based on location.
Even though both were caught in the wild and raised to an adult? Though the larger one was caught at a sub-adult and the other two were caught a couple of molts before adulthood. I guess that makes since.
Nothing from me yet. I leave most of the oothecae overwintering right now. My guess is the hatching pattern is similar to other Stagmomantis sp. where oothecae in the wild start to hatch only next Spring. I agree with you on the waiting part.
