Kris Anderson
Well-known member
Greetings, crypt keepers!
For our present study addressing the biology of praying mantises found in the United States and Canada, we are in need of a wide series of voucher specimens. If you would like your dead mantis to be forever entombed and remembered through a scientific study, please consider donating it. :smarty:
If you would be interested in donating your deceased mantises, please contact me for further details. I will pay for all shipping costs.
Only dead ADULTS are requested (no juveniles/nymphs). Please submit a photo of your corpses (or when the specimens were alive) to first confirm their identification.
Presently, were are only including North American mantises in this study. The species priority is listed as follows:
MOST NEEDED:
"Bactromantis" mexicana (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
Brunneria borealis Scudder, 1896
Mantoida maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
Oligonicella scudderi (Saussure, 1870)
Stagmomantis floridensis Davis, 1919
Stagmomantis gracilipes Rehn, 1907
Tenodera angustipennis Saussure, 1896
Yersiniops solitarium Scudder, 1896
Yersiniops sophronicum Rehn, 1908
MODERATE:
Gonatista grisea (Fabricius, 1793)
Litaneutria Sp.
Pseudovates chlorophaea (Blanchard, 1836)
Pseudovates arizonae Hebard, 1935
Stagmomantis californica Rehn & Hebard, 1909
Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1836)
Thesprotia graminis (Scudder, 1877)
NOT NEEDED:
Iris oratoria (Linné, 1758)
Mantis religiosa Linné, 1758
Stagmomantis carolina (Linné, 1763)
Tenodera sinensis Saussure, 1871
Thanks for you help!
Kris
For our present study addressing the biology of praying mantises found in the United States and Canada, we are in need of a wide series of voucher specimens. If you would like your dead mantis to be forever entombed and remembered through a scientific study, please consider donating it. :smarty:
If you would be interested in donating your deceased mantises, please contact me for further details. I will pay for all shipping costs.
Only dead ADULTS are requested (no juveniles/nymphs). Please submit a photo of your corpses (or when the specimens were alive) to first confirm their identification.
Presently, were are only including North American mantises in this study. The species priority is listed as follows:
MOST NEEDED:
"Bactromantis" mexicana (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894)
Brunneria borealis Scudder, 1896
Mantoida maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
Oligonicella scudderi (Saussure, 1870)
Stagmomantis floridensis Davis, 1919
Stagmomantis gracilipes Rehn, 1907
Tenodera angustipennis Saussure, 1896
Yersiniops solitarium Scudder, 1896
Yersiniops sophronicum Rehn, 1908
MODERATE:
Gonatista grisea (Fabricius, 1793)
Litaneutria Sp.
Pseudovates chlorophaea (Blanchard, 1836)
Pseudovates arizonae Hebard, 1935
Stagmomantis californica Rehn & Hebard, 1909
Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn, 1836)
Thesprotia graminis (Scudder, 1877)
NOT NEEDED:
Iris oratoria (Linné, 1758)
Mantis religiosa Linné, 1758
Stagmomantis carolina (Linné, 1763)
Tenodera sinensis Saussure, 1871
Thanks for you help!
Kris
