KAREN'S GALLERY (est. 2005)

(BG) Narrow-winged Mantis (Tenodera angustipennis) ID in question 2013-10-18 D&M, Aberdeen, MD

The orange spot differentiates this from the Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis sinensis)
the ID seems good to me, but will wait for BG to confirm

update: 4/16/15 - one vote maybe, one vote yes, so far
info
http://bugguide.net/node/view/342391
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1054434/bgimage

update 4/17/2015: This morning I added and ID header to the MANTID album. The info pages at bugguide were updated since yesterday. Yesterday they said T.sinensis had green edges to the tegmina and T. angustipennis had white edges. Today it's been fixed. I found this out because John Stanard left a note:
"White Outlines - On the tegmina are present in both T. sinensis and T. angustipennis.
… John Stanard, 16 April, 2015 - 9:41pm"
where yesterday the info pages said differently.
link to an example of already IDd Narrow-winged with no more information than in my picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/880801/bgimage

links to two examples of Narrow-winged Mantis ootheca:
(not to be confused with ootheca of Carolina Mantis)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/501536/bgimage
http://bugguide.net/node/view/337549/bgimage

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