Narrow-winged Mantis

The narrow-winged mantis (Tenodera angustipennis) ranges from Honshu south of Iwate through Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima and Okinawa Island to the Korean Peninsula and China, and in Japanese is often called simply kamakiri. It closely resembles the Japanese giant mantis but is smaller and slimmer, distinguished by the orange-red area between the fore coxae and by almost transparent hind wings bearing short dark-brown streaks along the front margin and centre; the giant mantis has purplish-black hind wings and yellow at the base of the raptorial legs. Males measure 65-80mm and females 70-90mm, in green and brown forms. It favours lowland woodland edges, grassland, paddy banks and parks, open sunny places more man-made than those used by the giant mantis, and adults are seen from July to November. The ootheca is slenderer, paler and harder than the giant mantis's and is attached to plant stems or tree trunks. Records from Otaru and Shibetsu in Hokkaido are attributed to oothecae carried on materials from Honshu or to escaped captives, and the species is also established in the eastern United States. Husbandry is the same as for the giant mantis: keep at 20-25C and house one per container. Oothecae and nymphs are traded seasonally in spring.

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The Narrow-winged Mantis grows to Males 65-80mm, females 70-90mm.

The ideal temperature for the Narrow-winged Mantis is 20〜25℃.