LauraMG
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I would like a verification for my own confidence. I'm 99% sure this is a female, but seeing as how the last one I thought was male wasn't I need a second opinion.
Female?
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im gonna guess it's a male... based on its size, and the number of segments..I can count 5 big segments and on the very end i can barely make out two smaller segments. I think both of mine are male too.. grrr.. i was realy hoping for a female.
LauraMG
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Double grrrrr! I'll never get this sexing thing down!
Disregard the double entendre please....
ismart
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It is a sub-adult male. 110% positive! 
LauraMG
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Son of a biscuit eater! Maybe I should post pics of the other ones I thought I had sexed right too!
ismart
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there is some other ways I think by looking at their antennas or bumps on their heads I think there was a post that had these ways to tell the difference in some species the males have a feathery antenna I think and the female has a more thinner antenna!
I have read that:
if it has a green line at the pronotum then is a female
if it has a brown line at the pronotum then is a male....
based on that you have a female!!!!
saludos
the link.... http://www.mantisonline.de/index.php?lan=en&show=species_mantids_view&content=a:5:{s:7:"subshow";s:15:"species_mantids";s:10:"level_left";s:3:"ghi";s:5:"genus";s:9:"hymenopus";s:18:"level_left_species";s:5:"index";s:7:"species";s:9:"coronatus";}
if it has a green line at the pronotum then is a female
if it has a brown line at the pronotum then is a male....
based on that you have a female!!!!
saludos
the link.... http://www.mantisonline.de/index.php?lan=en&show=species_mantids_view&content=a:5:{s:7:"subshow";s:15:"species_mantids";s:10:"level_left";s:3:"ghi";s:5:"genus";s:9:"hymenopus";s:18:"level_left_species";s:5:"index";s:7:"species";s:9:"coronatus";}
I used the "method" I wrote above on some Coronatus that I got from mantisplace.com (thanks Becky by the way :lol: )and it worked.
Also I saw other way to sex them, but for me was kind of difficult to see, any way the link is:
http://www.mantisphotos.com/sexinghymenopus.htm
saludos
Also I saw other way to sex them, but for me was kind of difficult to see, any way the link is:
http://www.mantisphotos.com/sexinghymenopus.htm
saludos
LauraMG
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Anyone know about my c. gemmatus here? I think female??? (even though I always refer to it as 'him')
ismart
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It's a male!
Even with that info, you can clearly see the last segment on her mantis indicates a male. Not to mention the line at the pronotum looks more brown than green to me? Maybe i'm color blind? :lol: Laura, how big is that orchid mantis? If it's an inch or less than it is definitley a male. The wing-buds also suggest a sub-adult male. They are fully formed. Next molt it will be an adult.
+1!
LauraMG
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You aren't colorblind at all! Definitely more brown than green. He's right at about an inch, very tiny little thing. I didn't even know he had those wings until I was cropping the pictures I took because he's so small I couldn't see them! All these exotic breeds have me so confused! I think if I had one of each sex side by side I would have an easier time understanding which is which
ismart
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I'm sorry laura! I did not mean to confuse you, but he does not have wings just yet. What i meant was his wings are in the finale development stage. Meaning in his next molt he will have full wings.
LauraMG
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Oh I know!
