I am preparing a display for the museum on ootheca species. Anyone is welcome to make guesses for the species, the photo is not very good but enough to make guesses. :?: Have fun, treat this as a game :wink: maybe the winner can get a free mantis 
Guessing the ooth species
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OGIGA
Dead Leaf Mantis
This is amazing. Just wondering, how many species have you kept ever since the beginning?
I'm no good at this, but I think #8 looks a lot like the desert pebble ootheca. And maybe #3 is orchid.
I'm no good at this, but I think #8 looks a lot like the desert pebble ootheca. And maybe #3 is orchid.
Morpheus uk
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Im guessing 4 is a bark mantis (dont know the latin name)
8 might be a dead leaf ooth
11 looks like a flower mantis ooth
18 a unicorn mantis?
8 might be a dead leaf ooth
11 looks like a flower mantis ooth
18 a unicorn mantis?
Ian
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Awesome stuff Yen!
I'l give it a guess
1 - The top and length look a little like my last Psedempusa ootheca, but not so much the top, so I am guessing it is not that.
2 - Hierodula Sp?
3 - Hymenopus Coronatus?
4 - Wahlbergii?
5 - pass
6 - Cilnia?
7 - Tenodera?
8 - Desert pebble?
9 - Gongylus?
10 - Blepharopsis? (Same kind of colour...)
11 - Nigerian flower (Can't remember name!)?
12 - Phyllocrania?
13 - Also looks like Hierodula P.
14 - pass
15 - That awesome species you had photos of earlier, but can't remember the name!
16 - Hierodula Patellifera (sp - looks kind of like the shape of them)?
17 - Popa sp?
18 - Phylovates?
19 - Changed to Stagmomantis!
20 - Miomantis?
21 - Burnerria?
22 - pass
23 - Sybilla?
24 - Pass
25 - I recognise this, and its the same shape as Blepharopsis ootheca!
26 - Pseudothorax?
27 - pass
28 - Grass mantis?
Just a few guesses there!
I'l give it a guess
1 - The top and length look a little like my last Psedempusa ootheca, but not so much the top, so I am guessing it is not that.
2 - Hierodula Sp?
3 - Hymenopus Coronatus?
4 - Wahlbergii?
5 - pass
6 - Cilnia?
7 - Tenodera?
8 - Desert pebble?
9 - Gongylus?
10 - Blepharopsis? (Same kind of colour...)
11 - Nigerian flower (Can't remember name!)?
12 - Phyllocrania?
13 - Also looks like Hierodula P.
14 - pass
15 - That awesome species you had photos of earlier, but can't remember the name!
16 - Hierodula Patellifera (sp - looks kind of like the shape of them)?
17 - Popa sp?
18 - Phylovates?
19 - Changed to Stagmomantis!
20 - Miomantis?
21 - Burnerria?
22 - pass
23 - Sybilla?
24 - Pass
25 - I recognise this, and its the same shape as Blepharopsis ootheca!
26 - Pseudothorax?
27 - pass
28 - Grass mantis?
Just a few guesses there!
Very cool project yen! I think #3 is Orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus). #2 I think is Giant Asian (Hierodula membranacea) , #6 I think is wide arm mantis-Cilnia humeralis. #19 is stagmomantis. That's all I got though.
I have kept well over 40+ species, wished i have kept more oothecae instead of throwing away during my first 2 yrs of mantis keeping.
Ian, you have got most of it right, well done!!
If anyone still wanna make a guess, don't scroll down. I am giving away the answer right at the bottom of the page
OGIGA
Dead Leaf Mantis
I'm getting educated.
:lol: glad I did not have to show my ignorance!!!
Yen,
Any chance you could send me a photo of that poster. That looks like something I would like to have on the wall of my bug room! Since I doubt I will ever see that many different species' oothecae, the photo would be nice to have. Maybe I can blow it up to poster size?
Any chance you could send me a photo of that poster. That looks like something I would like to have on the wall of my bug room! Since I doubt I will ever see that many different species' oothecae, the photo would be nice to have. Maybe I can blow it up to poster size?
Ian
Well-known member
Woo! What' the prize Yen? An insect collecting trip to South America, all expenses paid?
Awesome display buddy
Awesome display buddy
:lol: haha! sorry Ian can't afford the trip but will send you something nice. I will PM you.
THe display will be on this week as the HOuston Museum of Natural Science is renovating the insect zoo. I can take a better pic then and send you the electronic copy no problem. By the way, you will get some ootheca of different species this coming week sorry i have been busy.
HI Mike,
THe display will be on this week as the HOuston Museum of Natural Science is renovating the insect zoo. I can take a better pic then and send you the electronic copy no problem. By the way, you will get some ootheca of different species this coming week sorry i have been busy.
No problem about the wait! Everything from you is worth waiting for. I think that pic will will make a great framed poster. In fact, I think I know where it will go already!
Butterfly
Well-known member
That picture helped identify my Mantids. lol. I posted a picture of their mother and we were undecided if it was a Stagmomantis Limbata or Carolina. She laid me 3 ooths and they were all very similar and darn if they dont look EXCATLY like the ones you have marked as a Limbata. Hmm, pretty nifty!
I'd love to make it a poster too, think you could send me a nice email copy too Yen?
I'd love to make it a poster too, think you could send me a nice email copy too Yen?
Yes not a problem, i wished they make 3D photo too
If you don't mind waiting Butterfly, i can send you the copy next week as i won't be back in Houston until then.
If you don't mind waiting Butterfly, i can send you the copy next week as i won't be back in Houston until then.
Ian
Well-known member
Hmm, these are in way to much demand Yen, I think this calls to put a price on the posters rather than send them as a free gift..
Hey Ian, stay out of this!!! I need a copy before Yen goes and gets it published! Otherwise it will be way out of my price range.
Hey who knows i can make a living from this :twisted: Nah... no worry guys it is free. I have a larger size file for the pic but this site limit the pic size to fit into a page (or it is just on my comp?)
