PARTHENOGENESIS IN COPTOPTERYX VIRIDIS, GIGLIO TOS (1915) (DYCTIOPTERA, MANTIDAE).

Several years of observations of the behavior of the mantid Coptoteryx viridis suggested evidence of parthenogenesis in this species. C. viridis is a solitary, sedentary animal, where the female often kills the male before copulation takes place, and the average male adult life is half that of the female.