Male ghost molt

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Male Ghost mantis finally molted again today, after a long wait of over 6 weeks, to adult. Or so I thought. I swear he's the size of my female adult Ghost who has her wings, but his look like sub-adult stubs. Please tell me he didn't just molt into sub-adult. My female has been an adult for about 3-4 weeks now, and I'm worried my male ultimately won't be able to mate with her. Is this a sub-adult? Or an adult with some rare wing condition or something? I didn't place them directly next to each other, but I did with there containers and I looked closely at them both and I'm almost certain he's the size an adult male Ghost should be. He kinda looks like an oversized sub-adult.

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This whole time I thought my male and female were one instar apart. I guess I might wanna get another adult male for now, it's gonna be awhile before the last molt...

 

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