Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1987 |
Authors: | P. E. Bragg |
Journal: | Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 356 |
Start Page: | 160 |
Pagination: | 160 |
Date Published: | 08/1987 |
Keywords: | Parthenogenesis, Parthenogenetic |
Abstract: | Parthenogenesis is recorded in a praying mantis. [This species is subsequently identified in Bragg, P.E. (1989) (Bull. amat. ent. soc., 48(367): 242).] |
Full Text | A CASE OF PARTHENOGENESIS IN A MANTID Last year (1986) I bought a young praying mantid (I think it was a Miomantis species) and it duly developed into an adult female which laid seven oothacae. At Christmas three young hatched from one of the ootheca but died within a week due to my then ignorance in keeping them too dry. I have not been able to find any record of parthenogenesis in mantids. |