mantis species?

[Rick]

i'm taking a shot in the dark here, but i'd say that is either Hymenopus coronatus or Panthera tigris.

The ootheca looks like a Hierodula sp. but the nymph seems more like a Sphodromantis sp., but I really can't tell from the picture. Do you have a close-up of the head ?

Rob.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[AFK]

AFK, you are so wrong!! it is a woolly mammoth how could you miss it..... Brought the species to the museum, and was told it could be Sphdromantis Viridus. Anyway, i am letting it go for display in the insect zoo.

are you nuts?! no way it's a woolly mammoth. woolly mammoths are extinct!you guys think i'm joking but i'm DEAD serious. more dead than a woolly mammoth, in fact. you guys will be the last ones laughing when you realize that i, expert on all things invertebrates, was correct in that this is clearly a Panthera tigris.