Brunneria borealis

Brunneria borealis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Coptopterygidae
Genus: Brunneria
Species:
B. borealis
Binomial name
Brunneria borealis
Scudder, 1896

Brunneria borealis, common name Brunner's mantis,[1] Brunner's stick mantis,[2][3] or northern grass mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to the southern United States. It is the only mantis species known to reproduce solely through parthenogenesis; there are no males.[4]

  1. ^ [1] Dichotomous Key to Species of Mantids that may occur in Florida
  2. ^ "Slide Index". Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-07-21. Department of Entomology and Nematology of the University of Florida
  3. ^ [2] Archived 2012-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Phasmids in Cyberspace
  4. ^ [3] Mantis Study Group MSG NL 2 (November 1996)