The Mantis Menagerie
Fresh Imago
Is it possible to breed M. phyllodes in captivity? I know they are carabids and therefore are carnivorous, but I also read that the larvae develop between the fruiting bodies of shelf fungi. I was talking to an entomologist, and while he said he was not familiar with M. phyllodes specifically, he thought that a beetle larvae living in close proximity to shelf fungi might require a specialized environment that would be hard to replicate in captivity. If they are possible to breed in captivity, then this would obviously be an amazing species to maintain a colony of.