Empusa fasciata Brullé, 1832
![Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_im2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_2im2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_3im2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_4im2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Female (Thessaloniki, N-Greece, late June 2013) [N]")
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![Empusa fasciata: Larva (Rhodes, September 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_larve2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Larva (Rhodes, September 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Larva (Rhodes, September 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_2larve2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Larva (Rhodes, September 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Habitat (N-Greece, east of Thessaloniki, late June 2013) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_h2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Habitat (N-Greece, east of Thessaloniki, late June 2013) [N]")
![Empusa fasciata: Habitat in Rhodes at larval time (September 2013, Attaviros) [N]](bilder1/mantidae/fasciata_2h2013.jpg "Empusa fasciata: Habitat in Rhodes at larval time (September 2013, Attaviros) [N]")
Nutrition:
Predatory
Habitat:
Empusa fasciata inhabits dry, bushy pastures, scrub, garigues, fallow land, woodland margins and similar places.
Life cycle:
The larvae hibernate. I observed them still quite small in Rhodes in September. Adults appear from spring to summer.
Remarks:
Empusa fasciata occurs in the eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, Romania, Bulgaria) and is said to occur also in India.
Empusa pennata
