Order: Dictyoptères.

Under order: Mantodae.

Family: Mantidae.

Under family: Mantinae.

Genus and Species: Sphodromantis lineola. Burmeister 1838.

Usual name: Giant African Mantis.

Origin: Africa, Ghana, South of Europe, Arab Peninsula, Turkey.

Size: From 3 to 3½ in.

Terrarium: A terrarium in 5 gallons height with opening by the top, is very well recovered with a squared netting of 5 cm or mosquito net, the substrate will be composed of peat foam (3 cm), of the barks and branches of trees are obligatory, simplest are to put a plant has the interior of will terra. Arboricolous, it is not that very seldom seen saunter on the substrate.

Temperature: The 75°- 83° F day, the evening 68° - 73°F.

Moisture: Moisture must be 30 % to 60 %.

Food: They eat more the share of the invertebrates, domestic flies or has fruits for the small ones, crickets, mealworms, cockroaches, spiders, small lizards, to nourish at the three days. A simple technique for the adult, to attract the flies of is placed a small piece of meat in a dish on the substrate.

Reproduction: A few days after the coupling, the female manufactures a oothèque, filled from 25 to 300 small eggs, fast growth.