Parasphendale agrionina
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Parasphendale agrionina also called the German "Tanzania Praying Mantis" is a Fangschreckenart from the family of Mantidae .
features
Parasphendale agrionina is characterized by its pale brown color, especially in the area of the abdomen. Your aggressiveness is very pronounced. The adult females are up to 6 cm and the males up to 5 cm long.
Occurrence
This praying mantis is found in East Africa , where it is widespread from Ethiopia to Kenya to Tanzania .
There you can find it in the dry savannah , where it lurks for its next prey on branches of trees and bushes or on grass .
nutrition
The Tanzanian praying mantis is carnivorous. They eat everything they can overwhelm, e.g. B. crickets, crickets , small grasshoppers , cockroaches etc. But everything is conceivable, which corresponds to a maximum of 2/3 of their own body length.
Multiplication
The first ootheca is laid by the female about two weeks after mating. Up to eight more oothecs follow every two weeks. About 50–150 nymphs hatch from an ootheca after about six weeks . In captivity (25 to 30 ° C daytime temperature up to 19 ° C nighttime temperature) the males are approx. 5.5 months and the females approx. 10 months old (time from hatching). The Tanzanian praying mantis does not care for broods .
literature
- Wolfgang Schmidt: Invertebrates in the terrarium: insects - arachnids - snails . ISBN 978-3800-1568-25 .