Awesome Mantis!!!-a thread for people that want to talk about mantids they found that they think are cool

[hierodula]

http://www.insects.org/entophiles/mant_001.html

The moss mantis looks so cool! Unfortunately, it is only found in ecuador.... Let me know what you guys find!

 

[Mime454]

I like the head of Hypsicorypha gracilis.

 

[hierodula]

I like the head of Hypsicorypha gracilis.

Dude thats awesome! Its like a narwal horn. If it doesnt have a common name, we should call it the narwal mantis :clown:

 

[Mime454]

Dude thats awesome! Its like a narwal horn. If it doesnt have a common name, we should call it the narwal mantis :clown:

Horny grass mantis gets my vote.

 

[hierodula]

Lol "Horny"? :blush: :devil: I kid of course it a good name too!

 

[Mime454]

Lol "Horny"? :blush: :devil: I kid of course it a good name too!

That's what makes it the best common name ever.

 

[hierodula]

Hahaha!

 

[patrickfraser]

So what is the point of this thread and has anybody really responded in the appropriate manner or am I missing something?

 

[Mime454]

So what is the point of this thread and has anybody really responded in the appropriate manner or am I missing something?

Talking about cool mantids that aren't in culture? Which we have been doing?

 

[patrickfraser]

OH! I guess you mean "found" on the internet and not your own backyard. I guess I was missing something. :blush:

 

[Mime454]

OH! I guess you mean "found" on the internet and not your own backyard. I guess I was missing something. :blush:

That's what I thought. But now that you mention it, I might be wrong.

I just assumed that Hierodula hasn't visited Ecuador.

 

[hierodula]

That's what I thought. But now that you mention it, I might be wrong.

I just assumed that Hierodula hasn't visited Ecuador.

No you were right... or where you?

OH! I guess you mean "found" on the internet and not your own backyard. I guess I was missing something. :blush:

Thats all cool man

 

[brancsikia339]

6 words

Stenophylla lobivertex

Stenophylla cornigera

toxodera sp.

 

[hierodula]

:blink: :tt1: :tt1: :tt1: Way cool dude!

 

[Mime454]

Stenophylla lobivertex

Now that's a ghost mantis!

 

[hierodula]

Ya, if paradoxa is ghost, phollytheris werneri (check spelling plz) is mega ghost, these guys should be call the ultra-ghosts, or we name phyllocrania lesser ghost, phollytheris is ghost, Stenophylla should be greater ghost or mega ghost. :gunsmilie:

 

[brancsikia339]

Ya, if paradoxa is ghost, phollytheris werneri (check spelling plz) is mega ghost, these guys should be call the ultra-ghosts, or we name phyllocrania lesser ghost, phollytheris is ghost, Stenophylla should be greater ghost or mega ghost. :gunsmilie:

phyllothelys :lol:

also search up ceratocrania macra. Now that's a super ghost

 

[Mime454]

phyllothelys :lol:

also search up ceratocrania macra. Now that's a super ghost

I have little names in my head for new mantids, and I've always called that one the "Pharaoh" mantis.

 

[brancsikia339]

I have little names in my head for new mantids, and I've always called that one the "Pharaoh" mantis.

me too lol.