Oh my god LMAO
Did you end up with a Tenodera or something that reproduced parthenogenetically???
I had tried for like--a year to observe that kind of thing, but to no avail!!

WELL, the story goes that I bought an adult mantis off a guy, who was 100% sure she wasn't fertile, AND their species don't breed parthenogenetically??? So I'm like neat! I'll take her! Of course she lays ooth as all females do, and so i had them laying about inside my insects enclosures well after she passed away. Manwl, my archimantis latistyla, never wanders away from her enclosure as they aren't a locomotive breed, and so i usually just leave the doors of her terrarium open and let her catch the afternoon breeze, and occasionally wander down to me when i'm working on the computer. Because of this, the ooth that were laid inside Manwl's terrarium hatched and got out, so there were babies EVERYWHERE. I was picking them off my walls for days. I kept them all in plastic cups, fed them pinhead crickets, and ended up giving most of them away, as I'm NOT fit to house 70+ mantises! aha! I have no idea how the babies mom managed to get fertilised. My guess is that the guy didn't know a great deal about bugs :P

LMAO dear god.
Surprise babies are an adventure...

I had a similar situation with a wild-caught H. diardi jumping spider I found. When I brought her home, she promptly spun herself into a thick cocoon and died. I thought for sure it was something I did wrong, and the terrarium she had been placed in was left untouched for a month or so.
Then one afternoon, my husband spotted a tiiiiiny spiderling crawling on his computer monitor, and remarked that it looked so much like a diardi. I confirmed it was probably a diardi spiderling, and we wrote it off as a coincidence that it must have hitch hiked on his shirt or something, as he had just returned from outside.
Not even five minutes later, I spotted another one on the wall... In my books, for a treasured species like the H. diardi, that's one too many spiderlings to be a coincidence. I puzzled over this for a moment, before turning my eyes up to the ceiling, and...oh my god LMAO there were SO MANY. We spent the rest of the afternoon herding spiderlings into cups, and released most of them haha!

Oh my gosh they must have been SO small! I really look forward to being better established, so i can take on jumping spiders and other little creatures. I aaaalways have to resist taking them in from outside, we get so many jumping spiders around here, a lot of them peacocks. It kills me to put them back in the garden and watch them scuttle off, but ahh. One day! <':