2 females?

[robo mantis]

Ok well i hve 2 B. mendica and i thought i had a breeding pair when they were young now i'm changing my mind. I think the first pic is female and the second pic i thought was a male but not sure.

Oh and the one in the last pic is one molt behind if that makes a difference.

 

[robo mantis]

ANYONE?!

 

[robo mantis]

I can beleave no one can help me. :huh:

 

[asdsdf]

I wasn't sure, so I didn't post. Could you post clearer pic of the spikes?

 

[robo mantis]

I'll try

 

[macro junkie]

try taking better shot and using photoshop to crop and zoom it for us..

 

[robo mantis]

I'm going to be bumming around the house tomorrow so i guess i will have lots of time to do it.

 

[yen_saw]

I could be wrong, but it looks like the first pic is a male while the second pic is female. A better pic would help i agree.

 

[robo mantis]

Ok I'll get abdomin photos

 

[Mantida]

Yeah, the first one kind of looks like male. The antenna are much more thicker and longer than the one in the second pic.

 

[asdsdf]

Lol, I thought the first was male too, but I wasn't sure.

 

[tier]

Hi

As far as I can see, it is a pair . But the pictures are bad and picture 2 is difficult.Males have got 6 abdominal lobes, femals only 5. As far as I can see, picture one definetly has got 6 lobes. Picture 2 could be a female. It seems like a pair to me.

Males have got 7 abdominal segments, females only six, like all mantids, but it is more easy to count the lobes on the segments.

Maybe this link can help help you: http://www.mantisonline.de/deutsch/index.html

You have to put the black button saying "Arten" (="species") and than the black butten saying "weiter ->" (="go on->"). Than you can see a black butten saying "Blepharopsis". 2 pictures will open which are showing the differences between males and femals of this species. You can enlarge these pictures by clickin on them. "Männchen" is =male (left), "Weibchen" is = female(right). If you go on and put the white button saying "allgemein" (=general") and switch "allgemein" to "mendica mendica", you can watch some other pictures of males and females of every instar.

regards from germany,

tier

 

[robo mantis]

My camera software is messing up so i'm having a hard time with pictures right now