Australian mantis ID

[Mime454]

Any ideas? Photo found on reddit.

 

[psyconiko]

Kongobatha diademata

 

[gripen]

Kongobatha diademata

No. Not the right shape.

 

[happy1892]

Kongobatha diedemata have a different head shape. This looks more like a Sinomantis denticulata.

 

[SilentDeviL]

Ya I have few L5 snake that doesn't look like snake ..

 

[brancsikia339]

Neomantis australis

 

[happy1892]

Kongobatha diedemata have a different head shape. This looks more like a Sinomantis denticulata.

Now I am not so sure about the different head shape. I think the pictures I saw of Yen_Saw's Kongobatha diademata had a head like Sinomantis denticulata.

 

[Gill]

Kongobatha diademata

I agree

 

[Mime454]

Is it tropidomantis gressitti, like what is for sale in the classifieds right now? Looks like it.

 

[happy1892]

Not as different as I thought.

Sinomantis denticulata.

Kongobatha diademata 5th instar nymph.

Kongobatha diademata. Any way Sinomantis denticulata are not in Australia right? Oh, and that mantis in the picture, http://i.imgur.com/GCZ6T.jpg has a rich green color on its abdomen instead of neon transparent green. Why not call the Sinomantis denticulata the Angry Faced Glass Mantis? Maybe there are some other glass like mantids that look just as angry....