Mantises (Mantodea)

Thank you to the moderator for isolating this material in a separate topic "PRAYING MANTISES". Here is another" Crimean " - Iris polystictica Fischer von Waldheim, 1846. Now the RED BOOK was found as a larva of the last age on 21.07.2009 in the Eagle Gorge near the village of Perevalnoye in the Crimea. Here are photos of an individual not yet caught in nature:



After a short photo shoot, the praying mantis was caught, placed in a three-liter jar, where it ate everything that was offered, lived to the last molt (August 4) and turned into an avid cleaner:






This post was edited by palvasru4ko - 15.01.2010 04: 45

If there was a PLAYBOY magazine in the insect world, the bunny on the cover would undoubtedly be Empusa fasciata:



Crimea, north of Alushta, Nizhnyaya Kutuzovka, June 2, 2009

I hope everyone can support this topic.
A few shots are not exactly from nature, but I assure you,
during the filming, not a single praying mantis was injured.
"Photomodeli" (Mantis religiosa), all local - from the south of the Western region.










I'm not a very big" fan " of mantises, but oddly enough, the first photos
that I downloaded after connecting to "my" Internet
were photos of mantises.
From igor siwanowicz. (easy to find by search)
As they say - some things can not be ... but it is necessary to strive for this.

This post was edited by Egorus-16.01.2010 01: 29

I hope everyone can support this topic.

NEED IT!!!!

I feel like I'm on a desert island...
By the way, Igor Sivanovich is a biochemist. He studied the interaction of different groups of proteins. Grew up in a family of biologists. More or less seriously engaged in photography only since 2002 (he is now 33 years old, if memory serves me correctly). The main thing is to approach the matter with all your heart!

This post was edited by palvasru4ko - 16.01.2010 01: 50

I think the topic will grow. People should have a lot of materials.

Image from 29.03.2008.
It was caught in the vicinity of Inkerman (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) - 28.07.2007.
Empusa fasciata ("mama" bunny from the cover...)
((...and we saw these "frost-resistant" cockroaches... ))



This post was edited by Egorus-16.01.2010 04: 03

Op-pa... Just now, I accidentally found an old theme "Praying Mantises" (lunch).
It appears in the subforum "Life and mores of insects" was.
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=99599

Op-pa... Just now, I accidentally found an old theme "Praying Mantises" (lunch).
It appears in the subforum "Life and mores of insects" was.
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=99599 

Yes, there is no cannibalism, but you have a cockroach eating. Your photo is just here! Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have mantises myself (they don't occur here), otherwise I would support the topic.

Old ooteka Empusa fasciata. Crimea, near the village of Frontovoe (between Bakhchisarai and Sevastopol), April 26, 2009

By the way, what is the correct word - "ootEka" or"ootEka"? Experts - do not laugh at the "young", in the books "e" is not used, and therefore incidents sometimes occur...

By the way, what is the correct word - "ootEka" or"ootEka"? Experts - do not laugh at the "young", in the books "e" is not used, and therefore incidents sometimes occur...

OOTEKA In my opinion.

It turns out that the forum has a topic about keeping mantises in captivity!

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=32845&st=0

And quite extensive! I just found it today...

Bolivaria brachyptera, near Volgograd.

Pictures:

Bolivaria_brachyptera25.jpg — (105.87к)

Iris polystictica. Surroundings of Volgograd.

Pictures:

813.jpg — (90.11к)

And then she probably ate it...

Iris, like this.
Just from the industrial area of the city.

Empusa pennicornis, female. Surroundings of Volgograd.

Pictures:

IMG_4056.jpg — (118.58к)


IMG_4043.jpg — (67.87к)

Empusa pennicornis, female. Surroundings of Volgograd.

Why not fasciata? I can see the growth on my leg. Any close-up shots of your feet?

It was caught in the vicinity of Inkerman (Crimea)

To be precise, Inkerman refers to Sevastopol, which means that Crimea is not included in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Sevastopol is an independent administrative-territorial unit.

This post was edited by okoem - 18.01.2010 10: 27

Yes. For accuracy, it was probably necessary to write like this-
Ukraine, p-ov.Crimea, Sevastopol, Balaklavsky district, Inkerman
For accuracy - p.Inkerman is a village?
(Sorry, in the post that is written with a capital letter-unintentionally. )

Yes. For accuracy, it was probably necessary to write like this-
Ukraine, p-ov.Crimea, Sevastopol, Balaklavsky district, Inkerman
For accuracy - p.Inkerman is a village?
(Sorry, in the post that is written with a capital letter-unintentionally. )

"Balaklavsky district" - there is no such name. There is a "Sevastopol City Council". Inkerman is a village. It is probably acceptable to write shorter words like "Ukraine, Crimea, Inkerman" or"Ukraine, Sevastopol, Inkerman".
At the expense of letters, so we are not on the forum on philology, so that all the dots over the " e " are placed, we can be forgiven.

Yes, I tell my children all the time that you can't trust Wikipedia.
But I got caught myself...
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%....82.D0.B2.D0.BE

This post was edited by Egorus-18.01.2010 15: 31

Yes, I tell my children all the time that you can't trust Wikipedia.
But I got caught myself...
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%....82.D0.B2.D0.BE

Wikipedia can't be trusted, of course, but in this case it's probably right. So there is such a district. Although, I must admit, this is the first time I've heard about these subtleties of terminology. Only it turns out that this is already a very small local division. For example, the Feodosia City Council is divided into village councils and settlement councils, and in Sevastopol it turns out that this matter is not trivial, they called it "districts". And judging by the line "Inkerman City Council" Inkerman is a city
In total , I am once again convinced that the label should be linked to localities and geographical features, but not to administrative divisions.

Why not fasciata? I can see the growth on my leg. Any close-up shots of your feet?

Here's another photo. Outgrowths are present. I just haven't heard of E. fasciata in the Volgograd Region or in the Lower Volga region.

Pictures:

Empusa_pennicornis44.jpg — (122.53к)

Here's another photo. Outgrowths are present. I just haven't heard of E. fasciata in the Volgograd Region or in the Lower Volga region.

Thus, outgrowths on the hind legs are present, which means that it is not pennicornis, but fasciata. Or not?

3.
a.
Basins z. and especially for legs with large dorsal plate-like outgrowths.
--> Empusa fasciata

Empusa fasciata Brullé, 1836
Aegean Islands, Crete, Balkan Peninsula, South Crimea, West and North-West. Italy, Western Asia.

b.
Basins wed and wed. M. M. has no large dorsal plate-like outgrowths, whereas F. F. has small outgrowths on the mid-leg basins.
--> 4

4.
a.
The longitudinal veins of the crl are brownish in the marginal part, the parietal process is oblong (in M. M. - 4-6 mm. , in F. F.-6.7-8 mm.). Western form.
--> Empusa pennata

Empusa pennata Thunberg, 1815
Pyrenean Peninsula, France (northward to about 48° N), Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, NW. The Balkans (Istria),?Canary Islands, North Africa.

b. The
longitudinal veins of the crl are not brownish in the marginal part, the parietal process is shorter (in M. M.-3-4 mm., in F. F.-5-6 mm.). Eastern form.
--> Empusa pennicornis

Empusa pennicornis Pallas, 1773
Steppes from Yu. From Ukraine to the Lower Volga region, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Transcaspian region, West Asia, Iran, Tajikistan.

This post was edited by okoem - 18.01.2010 19: 03

I wonder if there are any publications on praying mantises of the Volga region!? I just now have you here considered that polistika and religiya are quite similar in appearance...
It will be necessary to redefine the fees of our Penza praying mantises, but what if we have more than one species??? There are so many types of praying mantises in the Volgograd region... Very interesting!

I just now have you here considered that polistika and religiya are quite similar in appearance...

Only males are similar, but the polystictica is one and a half times smaller. It is not possible to confuse the females, polystictica is a short-winged bird.

Mantis, Volgograd region.

Pictures:

Mantis_religiosa58.jpg — (145.46к)

Intersno, black spots-eyes on the inner side of the front thighs... Do Mantis have them, too?"..

Intersno, black spots-eyes on the inner side of the front thighs... Do Mantis have them, too?"..

In my opinion, of "our" praying mantises, they are just the ones with the owl.

By the way, what is the correct word - "ootEka" or"ootEka"? Experts - do not laugh at the "young", in the books "e" is not used, and therefore incidents sometimes occur...

Similar to the library, phonoTeca, and other techs - OOTECA

Ukraine, Zaporozhye region, Melitopol neighborhood, 23.08.2008

And here is a snapshot of the biotope:

I was told by the locals that this is the "Stone Grave Nature Reserve". Question to Igor Kovalev (Egus) or someone who knows how to call this place correctly. It's just that the maps I have don't show anything like this in the vicinity of Melitopol… By the way, there was also this" good " in bulk:

A question for Igor Kovalev (Egus) or someone who knows how to call this place correctly. .....By the way, there was still this" good " in bulk

"Stone Graves."
"There's plenty of that stuff in the Crimea, too.

- IMHO "Stone grave" is quite important, I'll explain a little later.
- I can show you places with even more of this "good" stuff.

Ukraine, Zaporozhye region, Melitopol neighborhood, 23.08.2008
I was told by the locals that this is the "Stone Grave Nature Reserve". Question to Igor Kovalev (Egus) or someone who knows how to call this place correctly. It's just that the maps I have don't show anything like this in the vicinity of Melitopol… By the way, there was still this" good " in bulk :

It's beautiful and mysterious, but don't reveal the points of "good"-it's broken, and everyone makes a mess of it In our Moscow region, I also come across it all the time (we have "gardeners").

Ukraine, Zaporozhye region, Melitopol neighborhood, 23.08.2008
I was told by the locals that this is the "Stone Grave Nature Reserve". Question to Igor Kovalev (Egus) or someone who knows how to call this place correctly. It's just that the maps I have don't show anything like this in the vicinity of Melitopol…

In your photo: "Stone Grave" - a geological natural monument of national significance, it is also a historical monument of national significance (now the historical status of the city has been raised) - Zaporozhye region, Melitopol district, Sichenie district, on the bank of the Molochnaya River.
"Stone Graves" Donetsk region, Volodarsky district, Zaporozhye region, Rozovsky district.

This post was edited by Djon-08.02.2010 12: 46

for palvasru4ko
Pavel, you have everything specified correctly.
On geographical maps, this place is not marked in any way.
There is a Stone Grave north-east of Melitopol.
Quite qualitatively described in Wikipedia
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%...%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0
At the same time, the link goes to the village of Patience (to the north of ono), but by km. closer to the outskirts: Mirne village (from the West) and Filippovka village (from the East) and
Tambovka village (from the South)
Well, the view "from above"

do not disclose the "good" points of this-consumers will break the rules and make a mess of everything

Duc, it's called "savage". It's not for nothing that they call her "bullshit". SUCH a grass-ant "nerds" do not "cling" - it is only suitable for" milk"... But it's not very popular, like... So they won't break...

Yes, I was joking, but the places are really cool.

Yes, I was joking.

Yes, I understand... Yaz so, not seriously Places are really interesting. By the way, on that day, two tents were standing very close to these "thickets" - tourists, probably