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Tenodera sinensis
This looks consistent with a Chinese Mantis. Please consider adding this to the Marvelous Mantids of the World mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...
Could also be Chinese Mantid (Tenodera sinensis). Hard to tell without seeing it's "armpits".
http://bugguide.net/node/view/12409
The European has a very distinctive spot on "armpits"
http://bugguide.net/node/view/699828/bgi...
They both occur in your state.