X-FILES: my small mantis collection.

[mantid_mike]

 

[sueb4653]

wow

 

[frogparty]

Excellent pics. Love the white backdrop

 

[mantid_mike]

Excellent pics. Love the white backdrop

Thanks! It was just a mini studio set-up using a sheet of paper from my printer lol

 

[agent A]

Lemme guess

Deroplatys lobata

Blepharopsis mendica

Creobroter pictipennis

Stagmomantis limbata

Popa spurca

Rhombodera stali

Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

Hymenopus coronatus

Phyllocrania paradoxa

 

[mantid_mike]

Lemme guess

Deroplatys lobata

Blepharopsis mendica

Creobroter pictipennis

Stagmomantis limbata

Popa spurca

Rhombodera stali

Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

Hymenopus coronatus

Phyllocrania paradoxa

yep, looks about right. i wasn't sure about the stagmomantis. i found him in Orange County and been thinking it was a stagmomantis californica.

 

[agent A]

yep, looks about right. i wasn't sure about the stagmomantis. i found him in Orange County and been thinking it was a stagmomantis californica.

Oh I think u r right

The black dots inside the forelegs indicate californica, limbata don't have those...

 

[jimpaunik]

nice collection

 

[mantid_mike]

Male adult Californica:

Sub-adult female pictipennis and adult male pictipennis:

Idolo Nymphs (L3):

 

[Mvalenz]

Nice collection. I like the white backdrop also.

 

[mantid_mike]

Thought I'd do an update with my current mantids:

 

[brancsikia339]

Where's the p. davisoni?

 

[mantid_mike]

Where's the p. davisoni?

I want them to molt and get a little bigger. I don't have the greatest lens for tiny subjects :blush:

 

[agent A]

The stagmo is deffo californica

 

[mantid_mike]

The stagmo is deffo californica

Any possibility that californica's can be parthenogenic?

 

[gripen]

No

 

[mantid_mike]

My creo female is so fat, never refusing food that comes her way. She's about to lay her 5th ooth today or tomorrow:

 

[Mime454]

What is the one underneath the Popa spurca in the OP. I love the colors!

 

[mantid_mike]

What is the one underneath the Popa spurca in the OP. I love the colors!

Are you talking about the first set of pics? That's an ornamental branch that I bought in the flower district here in downtown.