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.

See also

• List of mantis genera and species

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