happy1892
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That male I posted pictures above with the swollen wing buds has molted today. He has a beautiful blueish tinge on his wings which is not shown perfectly in this picture.
Who likes Miomantis binotata?
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PlayingMantis
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How big is this species as adults? 1 inch? I know it's small...but I've never kept it before.
happy1892
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The adult male I posted pictures of that molted recently is about 3cm from wingtip to head. I measured one green female and she was about 25 to 26mm long from wingtip to head. I tried to measure the other light brown female with pale, dull green colored forewings, but she was harder than the other female because she moved more and I did not want to stress her out too much so I gave up trying to measure her. She looked a tad bit smaller than the other green female I measured.
Here it says that they are about 30 to 40mm long. Note that I measured mine from wing-tip to head instead of abdomen tip to head. Females' abdomens expand very much so would be much longer after eating a large meal.:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miomantis_binotata#Merkmale
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happy1892
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A video of one of the females. It is cute how she moves in the video:
Leafbug
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I think they are absolutely gorgeous! I wouldn't mind having a pair of them.
happy1892
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I think they are beautiful too.
happy1892
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They probably keep those reddish patterns on the dorsal (Right word?) part of their abdomen when they become adult. But I have only checked while they were molting to adult and I do not know about males:
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happy1892
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The male did not have the reddish markings:
happy1892
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The females might lose the reddish patterns on their abdomens after molting to adult:
happy1892
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Actually she was the second female to molt to adult and has been adult over two weeks now. But I did have one green female molt recently, or less than a week ago.
happy1892
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I checked more adult females when they moved their wing to their side in a way I could catch a little glimpse underneath their wings and I could not see any patterns.
happy1892
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I should take a better look at the abdomens of the adult females to see if they certainly lack the reddish markings.
