Brunneria_subaptera
Brunneria subaptera
Species of praying mantis
Brunneria subaptera, common name small-winged stick mantis, is a species of praying mantis found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.[1][2]
They are a stick winged mantis found in grasslands of South America.
Mantis reproduction has often been referenced for its cannibal event with the recently inseminated female eating her mate. These mantises avoid that, using a breeding process called thelytokous parthenogenesis where offspring results from an unfertilized egg. There is a concern among entomologists that the mantises reproducing in this manner will create an extremely limited gene pool.
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