Brunneria subaptera
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Brunneria subaptera, common name small-winged stick mantis, is a species of praying mantis found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. They are a stick winged mantis found in grasslands of South America.
Mantis reproduction is often associated with sexual cannibalism, where the recently inseminated female eats her mate. These mantises avoid that, using a breeding process called thelytokous parthenogenesis where offspring results from an unfertilized egg. There is a concern among entomologists that the mantises reproducing in this manner will create an extremely limited gene pool. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Small-Winged Stick Mantis sighting in Buenos Aires on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 345th most-seen of the 558 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Small-Winged Stick Mantis in Buenos Aires on a given day, against under 5% in February to December, the lowest months.
Only Buenos Aires, in our data
Buenos Aires is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Small-Winged Stick Mantis sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Small-Winged Stick Mantis is recorded against all the insects logged in Buenos Aires (13 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
