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Nope, named after a friend of mine who passed away.

They successfully popped out about 5 ooths, which were sent on to various breeders...and i'm now seeing their offspring and ooths being sold on via ebay and various forums under the name 'Coopers Mantis' or sometimes 'giant cameroon'

aaaand the male is currently sitting back to front on a very egg laden female. Wohoo!

I think you might well be right there Dracus, the male is a spitting image for my lil fella from the only pic of them i could find!

more info from the person who gathered the ooth; "Oothecas gathered from around the coastal village of Njonji at the base of Mt Cameroon and close to the major city of Douala. Oothecas are approx 4cm round and all have a greenish colour and are very large"

I'm fairly new to who's who on these forums, so havent asked anyone via PM.

Yeah everyone's totally stumped! Might try tracking down some entomology professors etc, see if they could help.

Quoted from the seller "The eggsac was green, 2" across and from Cameroon"

Hiya folks, myself and another UKMF member bought what we were told were Plistospilota guineensis by a reputable seller and just by looking at the nymphs we know they werent. Got 3/5 of them to adulthood now and noone on the UKMF have any idea what they are. They've got similarities to a lot of...

No idea, I was just doing it all from facts lodged in my brain!! I'm going to go back through it and do more research into it to make it a thing of beauty. :D (Thanks all!)

Hey folks, i got bored last night and whipped up a first draft of my Q&A about mantis, mostly stuff all my friends have been asking me. Hoping to turn it into something special, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. http://shiftplusone.livejournal.com/534468.html

I love all of his vids, the one about hedgehogs had me in hysterics.

I'd go as far as to say NEVER feed a gongy crickets, or any mantis crickets for that matter! My three females would take locusts if hungry, but much prefer bluebottles, which are easy to keep and with the right knowhow, none will ever escape in your home. But Gongys are in no way a beginners...

Hehe, cheers, i love my job/hobby. Just applied for Faceoff on the SyFy channel, so if anyone's in LA, come show me around. :P

Culturing waxworms at the moment, take an age between generations though, looking at 4 months to establish properly, but the lil guys love the catapillars and the moths, so easy pickings for the mantis. Easy to make the culturing medium too.