MANTIDS (Family Mantidae)
Attempted IDs
Sex: For adult praying mantises, seen from below, females have 6 abdominal segments and males have 8. Where the last few segments of the male's are narrower, the female's last segment is much larger.
ID: According to bugguide, both the Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) and the Japanese Narrow-winged Mantis (T. angustipennis) have white edges on the outside edges of the tegmina (wings). T. sinensis has a yellow spot on its chest between its forelegs and T. angustipennis has an orange spot. There's also a size difference according to Wikipedia - the Chinese is a bit larger where the Narrow-winged is a little shorter and more slender overall.
The most definitive way to tell them apart, however, is by their hindwings.
T. sinensis has a darker, more mottled hindwing: http://bugguide.net/node/view/576038/bgimage
T. angustipennis in comparison is fairly clear where T. sinensis is darker: http://bugguide.net/node/view/576034/bgimage
Examples of variety in Mantid ootheca: http://bugguide.net/node/view/342391
A more detailed description of T. angustipennis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-winged_mantid
Sex: For adult praying mantises, seen from below, females have 6 abdominal segments and males have 8. Where the last few segments of the male's are narrower, the female's last segment is much larger.
ID: According to bugguide, both the Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) and the Japanese Narrow-winged Mantis (T. angustipennis) have white edges on the outside edges of the tegmina (wings). T. sinensis has a yellow spot on its chest between its forelegs and T. angustipennis has an orange spot. There's also a size difference according to Wikipedia - the Chinese is a bit larger where the Narrow-winged is a little shorter and more slender overall.
The most definitive way to tell them apart, however, is by their hindwings.
T. sinensis has a darker, more mottled hindwing: http://bugguide.net/node/view/576038/bgimage
T. angustipennis in comparison is fairly clear where T. sinensis is darker: http://bugguide.net/node/view/576034/bgimage
Examples of variety in Mantid ootheca: http://bugguide.net/node/view/342391
A more detailed description of T. angustipennis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-winged_mantid
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) fem 2015-9-18 Newark, DE
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) fem 2015-8-21 Newark, DE
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) fem 2015-8-21 Newark, DE
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) fem 2015-8-21 Newark, DE
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(BG) Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) fem 2015-8-21 Newark, DE
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) nymph - 2013-7-29 Newark Oaks, DE
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Urban "Preying" Mantis (Tenodera) 2016-8-28 Newark, DE
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) fem 2016-8-16 Newark, DE
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(BG) Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) nymph 2015-07-21 Newark Oaks, DE
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis sinensis) and hitchhiking moth 9/5/12 PL DE - sources say this is the one with a yellow spot on its chest between the forelegs.
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis sinensis) 9/5/12 PL DE
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis sinensis) long "facial plate" 9/5/12 PL DE
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(BG) Narrow-winged Mantis (Tenodera angustipennis) ID in question 2013-10-18 D&M, Aberdeen, MD
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Narrow-winged Mantis (Tenodera angustipennis) ID in question 2013-10-18 D&M, Aberdeen, MD - orange spot between forelegs - ID in question
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Chinese or Japanese Mantis 2008-10-4 unknown campsite in southern DE
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Chinese or Japanese Mantis 2008-10-4 - unknown campsite in southern DE
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Chinese Mantis ootheca (egg case) D&M, Aberdeen, MD
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Mantis nymph 2014-6-28 - D&M, Aberdeen, MD
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Praying Mantis 2013-9-6 Newark Oaks, DE
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Praying Mantis 9/21/11 PL - showing why it's called the "praying" Mantis.
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Praying Mantis 9-7-11 PL
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis sinensis) 8/10/11 PL
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