Omomantis zebrata Female adult :)

[Frey]

Omomantis Zebrata from RPA

 

[Katnapper]

Very nice!

 

[[email protected]]

Really cool.

 

[superfreak]

beautiful!

 

[Borya]

Where does this species live in nature?

 

[Rick]

Like that.

 

[massaman]

my guess its a african species or close to it!

 

[idolomantis]

Googled it.. the internet says it's from Namibia.

But ofcourse the internets are not always right.

I love the pattern on it tho.

 

[cloud jaguar]

That is one cool looking specimin! What the heck is RPA btw?

 

[idolomantis]

Rare Part of Africa?

 

[mantidsaresweet]

That is very beautiful!

 

[massaman]

someone needs to snatch up some of those ooths and try to culture them in the U.S

 

[bassist]

someone needs to snatch up some of those ooths and try to culture them in the U.S

IF they're cultured ANYWHERE they are bound to make it to the US.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Googled it.. the internet says it's from Namibia.But ofcourse the internets are not always right.

I love the pattern on it tho.

I looked at this useful website: http://books.google.com/books?id=s4ke5JwbT...E4qvjUY7OK& which would suggest that it doesn't spread far enough west or north to be in Namibia, though it does like bush veldt and the map I saw only includes S.A. Certainly on the south and east coast of South Africa. I thought that the RPA was the old Rwandan Patriotic Army. Guess not.

 

[idolomantis]

Lol you really are best friends with google, aren't you.

And yes with a bit of imagination you can make anything from RPA(Red Penguin Apendix - Rate Pandora's Army- Radical Peruvian Apes)

But for what does it stand on this one?

 

[cloud jaguar]

I thought that the RPA was the old Rwandan Patriotic Army. Guess not.

Perhaps that mantis is the Air Force of the Rwandese Patriotic Army... otoh, could be a mere conscript

Or....(per thefreedictionary.com) "RPA, Republika Poludniowej Afryki (Polish: Republic of South Africa)"

 

[massaman]

maybe frey can enlighten us to what RPA stands for!

 

[Frey]

Republic of South Africa - country from which is coming this species