Didymocorypha lanceolata for adoption

[yen_saw]

This is the last new species i have. As i am leaving this hobby they are up for adoption. Anyone interested and wants to adopt them please send me e-mail. It is free but you pay shipping. BUt please make sure you can provide proper care for them. Following are some pics of this species. Check out the details on this link

D. lanceolata

http://www.usamantis.com/Dlanceolata_log.html

Adult male

Adult female

Hatchling

 

[Kruszakus]

If anyone wants to have them, you better have loads of springtails handy - nymphs are too small to grab even D. melanogaster

 

[ABbuggin]

Yen, you have a PM.

Lucky me, I have LOADS and LOADS of springtials (about 10 cultures) from raising the Bolbena, hottentotta (which are MUCH smaller than the these guys).

 

[Kruszakus]

Yen, you have a PM.Lucky me, I have LOADS and LOADS of springtials (about 10 cultures) from raising the Bolbena, hottentotta (which are now L4 by the way).

I keep them around 28C, I don't mist them out of fear of drowning them - they are really fragile, but the substrata is always moist - thanks to that springtails come to the surface as well.

I actually managed to produce fruit flies small enough (around 0.6-0.8 mm) for L1 nymphs, but springtails are the safest bet.

It's a sweet species, and mine are adopted too - I was given those in order to keep it available, you know how people tend to screw certain species up (see Ceratomantis) - so, once you get them be ready to embark on a special mission

 

[Ben.M]

I would offer them a home but as they need high temps i think would get to cold if they were to be shipped to the UK

Beutiful species though

 

[ABbuggin]

I keep them around 28C, I don't mist them out of fear of drowning them - they are really fragile, but the substrata is always moist - thanks to that springtails come to the surface as well.I actually managed to produce fruit flies small enough (around 0.6-0.8 mm) for L1 nymphs, but springtails are the safest bet.

It's a sweet species, and mine are adopted too - I was given those in order to keep it available, you know how people tend to screw certain species up (see Ceratomantis) - so, once you get them be ready to embark on a special mission

From my research, their care seems to be just like tarachodes, they dont look like they will be too hard.

I was given those in order to keep it available, you know how people tend to screw certain species up (see Ceratomantis) - so, once you get them be ready to embark on a special mission

Trust me, I know what your talking about, thats why I've been breeding Tarachodes for so long (I'm now at my 3rd generation). They are such a wonderful species and I'd hate to see them leave the hobby in the US. Good new is, I'm pretty sure another breeder in the US who I sent a pair to, is currently breeding them! B)

 

[Kruszakus]

From my research, their care seems to be just like tarachodes, they dont look like they will be too hard.

Nah, they don't seem to - but the trick is with smalled prey - I also heard that they love to munch a silverfish - I wonder how to start a colony on those?

Apart from that, they don't seem to be a tricky species.

 

[ABbuggin]

Nah, they don't seem to - but the trick is with smalled prey - I also heard that they love to munch a silverfish - I wonder how to start a colony on those? Apart from that, they don't seem to be a tricky species.

I got it covered with the small prey. I have tons and tons of spring tails from when the B. hottentotta had to eat them (they are finally able to eat fruit flies lol)

Are the Didymocorypha lanceolata L1's the same size as a Tarachodes L1? I'm just curious because when Tarachodes are L1 they have no problem with fruit flies.

 

[Kruszakus]

I got it covered with the small prey. I have tons and tons of spring tails from when the B. hottentotta had to eat them (they are finally able to eat fruit flies lol)Are the Didymocorypha lanceolata L1's the same size as a Tarachodes L1? I'm just curious because when Tarachodes are L1 they have no problem with fruit flies.

I have not seen Tarachodes nymps in real life. L1 D. lanceolata are like 5 milimiters long, but their raptorial arms are just so tiny that they cannot grab ahold of anything bigger than springtails and mites - sometimes they grab really small fruit flies, and usually they struggle a bit before they have a tight grip on them.

 

[spawn]

Are these related to pyrgomantis that Lars had?

 

[Kruszakus]

Are these related to pyrgomantis that Lars had?

Yeah - they are in the same subfamilia, both are Tarachodinae.