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Aust J Entomol 51:133–140īarry KL, Holwell GI, Herberstein ME (2008) Femalepraying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategyto increase fecundity. We observed spermatophore feeding by the female at the end of mating sexual cannibalism occurred during copulation.Īllen LA, Barry KL, Holwell GI (2012) Mate locationand antennal morphology in the praying mantid, Hierodulamajuscula.

The mean life span of females (93.3 days ± 5.3 SD) was longer than of males (48.6 ± 4.7 SD). The time needed from hatching to imago was about 89.1 days (± 0.7) and included nine moults for males and ten moults for females. The mean number of nymphs hatching from the field-collected oothecae was 22.0 (± 3.1 SD), while this number was considerably higher for the oothecae laid in the laboratory (97.1 ± 11.0 SD). The mean incubation period of five field-collected oothecae was 36.4 days (± 0.5 SD) and thus very similar to oothecae laid in the laboratory (35.1 days ± 3.0 SD). Therefore, we investigate the biology, life cycle, mating, cannibalism, and spermatophore feeding of the species Hierodula tenuidentata. Nevertheless, the life history of many of its species remains unknown. The praying mantis genus Hierodula is widespread throughout temperate and tropical Asia, and its species are well recognised due to their large size.

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