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About a cm and a half i think, and yes they moult on the ground, which makes the fact that i had a couple mismoult even more infuriating.

Kinda like Silverfish, Thermobia.

Sub adult female.

Got 4 of these, did have 8, lost half of them from mismoults and just dropping dead. Feeding on firebrats and kept under a heat lamp.

She moulted and she's moody.

My M.violaceus has been on fruit flies, too small for the firebrats i have right now. The M.splendidis are on them though, managed to get the female to nibble most of a pre killed turkistan roach, doesnt seem to be an enthusiastic feeder. Males moulted, hoping the female will catch up.

Another new one for me i got at Hamm, pain in the to photograph.

Not trying to show off or anything ;) M.splendidus M.violaceus

Thanks all, its looking ok so far, around 5th or 6th instar now, not sure if i mixed up a moult. Prepare for a massive photo dump now, been taking loads of photo's since all the females are the same instar now. But due to work and flickr being BS now i didnt get round to uploading them untill...

Omnivorous species feeding on green bottles, fruit flies, fish food, dandelion flowers, aphids, and pretty much most things lol. Waited for these for a while and now i cant wait untill they are adult, they get a stylish Tron style colour scheme :D Always found carnivorous katydids interesting...

Got 3 females and 2 males around 5th instar, fingers crossed.

Empusa sp. are from the Empusidae family, ghosts are from Hymenopodidae.

Who sells these new australian species? Thought it was near impossible to get anything out of australia.

Is that the kinda conservational work where they have to kill what they find to catalouge it?

Has anyone ever bred these? Would be looking for someone who could sell me some ova to the UK.

Well given the fur at least her bag has her name on it.

Would also like to see these bred, didnt Yen hatch some ooths way back? Is anyone else keeping these?

We covered it here. I think its deffiniately a Sphrodomantis viridis. Every part of yours looks just like mine and other S.viridis i've seen.

Heres an old sub adult female i had way back. As you can see there are a bunch of small segments on the left (topside), whilst on the right (underside) there is the one large one of a female. The males are much narrower than the females, here are my old sub adult female below and the male below her.