2 mantids from the Tip Of Borneo

[Anleoflippy]

So these are the mantids that I was talking about in my previous topics that has purple wings and a beautiful Coloration on the Raptorial legs...

I am guessing there are not Hierodula or Tenodera. I think these two are the same Species since both of them have the same color...

First, Here is where I found them

First Mantis. Name is 'Still' because he is always in 1 location. He is a sit and stay Predator...

Is he shy or what?

Second. Name is Hunter. Because he is a Stalker...

Both of them on the Replica Bonzai Tree...

I wonder why everytime I put my mantids on the Bonzai tree,they do not react until there is food... :lol:

Even one of my previous Hierodula trimaculata does not react...

 

[Anleoflippy]

For all of you want to know where is the Tip Of borneo...

The Red dot, I live in Kota Kinabalu but my hometown in on the Tip Of Borneo (Kudat)

I took 3 hours to get there by car...

And I will be going to Ranau in October to find Paratoxodera borneana,Rhombodera Basalis and Paratoxodera cornicollis. I've seen the specimen at The Kinabalu Park at Kundasang which is near Ranau...

 

[Gurd]

The markings on the inside of the femur look similar to the markings on the Statilia maculata that I have, however I know this is no sure way of identification

 

[Christian]

Should be Statilia nemoralis, but it's difficult to confirm without examining the specimens. Statilia is for sure though.

 

[Anleoflippy]

There could be a possibility that it is Statilia maculata since it is native to Asia which is where Borneo is located. Statilia nemoralis is very similar to mine. By The Way, these 2 are still healthy and still taking down enemies