African twig mantis (Popa spurca)
Family- Mantidae.
| Taxonomy: |
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| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Sub-Phylum: |
Tracheata |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Sub-Class: |
Pterygota |
| Super-Order: |
Dictyoptera |
| Order: |
Mantodea |
| Sub-Order: |
- |
| Family: |
Mantidae |
| Sub-Family: |
Vatinae |
| Tribe: |
Danuriini |
| Genus: |
Popa |
| Species: |
spurca |
| Year: |
1856 |
| Distribution: |
Africa, Madagascar. |
Oothecae takes 2- 3 month to hatch if kept at
22- 25°C (73- 77°F), 30- 40% humidity. About
100 nymphs will hatch from a single ootheca. They
take about 4- 6 month to mature. When disturbed,
fall on the ground and pretend it is dead.
Females: get 7.5 - 8 cm long. If fed properly,
they will lay 6- 7 oothecae in a life time.
Males: get 6.5 - 7 cm long.
Diet: Drosophila, houseflies, crickets, flour worms.
To the newly hatched larvae must be promptly offered
Drosophila flies.
Ootheca.
L3 nymph.
Adult female.
Female cleaning her abdomen, after i have finished
removing the ootheca from it. This specie often
gets "egg bound" if not kept in moist
enaph area. If that does happen, just simply moisten
her abdomen for 10- 15 min, and carefully pull the
ootheca off.
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