Brunneria subaptera
| Brunneria subaptera | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Coptopterygidae |
| Genus: | Brunneria |
| Species: | B. subaptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Brunneria subaptera Saussure, 1869 | |
Brunneria subaptera, common name small-winged stick mantis, is a species of praying mantis found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
They are a stick winged mantis found in grasslands of South America.
Mantis reproduction is often associated with sexual cannibalism, where the recently inseminated female eats 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.[citation needed]
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References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-02. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Texas A&M University - ↑ Trillo, Mariana C.; Aisenberg, Anita; Herberstein, Mariella E.; Bidegaray-Batista, Leticia (2024-02-02). "Amazons Are Back: Absence of Males in a Praying Mantis from Uruguayan Savannas". Neotropical Entomology. 53 (2): 323–329. Bibcode:2024NeEnt..53..323T. doi:10.1007/s13744-023-01114-5. ISSN 1678-8052. PMID 38305945.
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