LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE EGYPTIAN PRAYING MANTIS Miomantis paykullii STAL, (MANTODEA: MANTIDAE) | ||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||
| Article 12, Volume 3, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 1235-1240 PDF (353.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2012.84411 | ||
| Author | ||
| T. E. Ata* | ||
| Dep. of Plant Protection. Fac. of Agric. Al-Azhar University. Cairo. Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Certain biological aspects of the Egyptian praying mantis Miomantis paykullii (Stal, 1871) were studied in the laboratory. Results indicated that ootheca contained an average of 52.4 nymphs, with a mean length of 15.0 mm. The total duration period of nymphal stage required 64.1±10.54 and 54.8±6.54 days for female and male respectively. The generation period was 99 days at daily mean of temperature 25.9Cº and relative humidity percentage 45.0%. Six nymphal instars were recorded for male whereas, seven instars were found for female. The fecundity of M. paykullii through the oviposition period was 336.2±56.78 nymph per female. | ||
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