Adult female creo :)

[agent A]

she looks good

enjoy

 

[Mime454]

Very clear photos.

 

[SilentDeviL]

Good shots Alex my len will coke today then i.ll have a chance play around with it.then post some.shots.

 

[Malakyoma]

Which species of Creo is this? My pictipennis' wings dont get to the end of her abdomen like yours.

 

[agent A]

Which species of Creo is this? My pictipennis' wings dont get to the end of her abdomen like yours.

Pictipennis

Yours is likely gemmatus then

 

[Malakyoma]

I got her from Albert's pictipennis stock. Pretty sure she's a pictipennis

 

[agent A]

I got her from Albert's pictipennis stock. Pretty sure she's a pictipennis

I get a feeling albert is keeping apicalis

They r very similar but the thorax and wing colors vary slightly

 

[Malakyoma]

I get a feeling albert is keeping apicalis They r very similar but the thorax and wing colors vary slightly

Thanks to your comment I spent the afternoon tracing my mantids ancestry. Albert got them from Shieldmantis1997 who got them from Sporeworld who was sure they were pictipennis. Maybe yours is the one misidentified.

 

[sally]

Ok so this is driving me crazy... I have 2 creos. Both came at the same time from mantidmike. One has elongated wings, and one has teeny tiny wings like a mini version of the other one when they became adult. At first I though oh, a male and a female but now Idk. I have been looking at all the pics trying to see if they are gemmatus or apicalis or pictipennis... But they came from the same batch. Uggghhh , anyway I will post pics when I get home from new jersey for much needed help. Nice pics ...

 

[Malakyoma]

Ok so this is driving me crazy... I have 2 creos. Both came at the same time from mantidmike. One has elongated wings, and one has teeny tiny wings like a mini version of the other one when they became adult. At first I though oh, a male and a female but now Idk. I have been looking at all the pics trying to see if they are gemmatus or apicalis or pictipennis... But they came from the same batch. Uggghhh , anyway I will post pics when I get home from new jersey for much needed help. Nice pics ...

If they're from the same batch they should be the same species. In the picture Alex posted looks like the male Creo I had before. With the long wings. I can tell its female though from the third pic, and her wings are much longer than my females.

 

[Mime454]

Thanks to your comment I spent the afternoon tracing my mantids ancestry. Albert got them from Shieldmantis1997 who got them from Sporeworld who was sure they were pictipennis. Maybe yours is the one misidentified.

If this keeps going it could literally be the most nerdy fight ever had on the Internet.

 

[SilentDeviL]

If this keeps going it could literally be the most nerdy fight ever had on the Internet.

lmao .... is true ....

 

[Malakyoma]

If this keeps going it could literally be the most nerdy fight ever had on the Internet.

I dunno. I'm sure there's been lots of fights over rules in D&D which I would say is more nerdy than who's creo is misidentified.

 

[agent A]

If they're from the same batch they should be the same species. In the picture Alex posted looks like the male Creo I had before. With the long wings. I can tell its female though from the third pic, and her wings are much longer than my females.

the creo is a female!

i guess it's normal variation

maybe they get so fat the abdomen reaches beyond the wings

 

[sally]

the creo is a female!

i guess it's normal variation

maybe they get so fat the abdomen reaches beyond the wings

I am almost home so when I get there I will post the " mini" wings. Yes the length is small... But it is the size of the markings and width also .truly mini.

 

[sally]

okay here are the creobroter pics of small mini wings andnormal size wings. sorry no macro lens....so what do you think? :blush:

 

[hierodula]

maybe if you breed these smalle wing creos, youll bet a budwing flower mantis??!?!?!? Strange anyway.

 

[agent A]

they both look like gemmatus

look at the perfect circle spots on the bottom one's wings, this is characteristic of gemmatus

apicalis have the inward curving markings like the top one, and pictipennis have the indents at the top of the spots like my female

my creos r from mike and trans-am, though mike got his creos from trans-am so they r the same

 

[patrickfraser]

I have a budwing flower mantis. :lol:

What kind of creo is this one?