Parablepharis kuhlii

[Mantisman.]

Just want to know, is anyone currently keeping this beauty?

 

[gripen]

Not in culture. Very nice mantis though. Close relative of the ghost mantis.

 

[brancsikia339]

Not in culture. Very nice mantis though. Close relative of the ghost mantis.

+1. They're around the same size as well. They have a large "crown" that is the size and with of the head. In females, the hood is larger and the markings on the inside of the arms are salmon pink striped. Overall, their color is dark black, but there are variations

Edit: Really good websites with Parablepharis kuhlli pics http://nanophyes.exblog.jp/tags/%E3%83%99%E3%83%88%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A0/

http://nanophyes.exblog.jp/tags/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AA/

This shows a parablepharis kuhlli ooth hatching http://nanophyes.exblog.jp/14052817/

 

[Mirk]

Yeah I have been really wanting theses guys since I saw them on the Uk forums. Someone offered ooths from them(I think leviathan, but i don't remember forsure) in the classified section here some months ago. Really kicking myself for not going after them. Have never really heard much on their care tho. One would think they would be easy to culture being close relatives of ghosts, but I am sure they would be here already if that was the case.

 

[happy1892]

Thank you Brancsikia339 for the pictures I have not seen before. There are two subspecies of Parablepharis kuhlii right? Parablehpharis kuhlii subsp. asiatica and Parablepharis kuhlii subsp. kuhlii. Subsp. or ssp. means subspecies and var. means variety . Maybe asiatica has a different thorax from kuhlii. I found this picture, http://www.dght-basel.ch/pics2010/vortrag100104-parablepharis-kuhlii-asiatica.jpg from here. It says it is a Parablepharis kuhlii asiatica. There must be a topic on a forum about that picture. The Parablepharis kuhlii here, http://borneokuwagata.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-mantis.html (looks like a female) looks different from the ones on that site (Is it Japanese?). Maybe this one (call it #1), is a Parablepharis kuhlii kuhlii because it looks different from this one (#2). #2 is a Parablepharis kuhlii asiatica. Is #2 an adult female?

 

[brancsikia339]

Thank you Brancsikia339 for the pictures I have not seen before. There are two subspecies of Parablepharis kuhlii right? Parablehpharis kuhlii subsp. asiatica and Parablepharis kuhlii subsp. kuhlii. Subsp. or ssp. means subspecies and var. means variety . Maybe asiatica has a different thorax from kuhlii. I found this picture, http://www.dght-basel.ch/pics2010/vortrag100104-parablepharis-kuhlii-asiatica.jpg from here. It says it is a Parablepharis kuhlii asiatica. There must be a topic on a forum about that picture. The Parablepharis kuhlii here, http://borneokuwagata.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-mantis.html (looks like a female) looks different from the ones on that site (Is it Japanese?). Maybe this one (call it #1), is a Parablepharis kuhlii kuhlii because it looks different from this one (#2). #2 is a Parablepharis kuhlii asiatica. Is #2 an adult female?

yes there are two subspecies. I'm fairly certain kuhlii kuhlii is the one with the darker coloration and kuhlii asiatica has the lighter colors. for example, this: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1723/parablephariskuhlii3.jpg is most likely kuhlii asiatica, and this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l-0vfJzoyFI/TQTyYU12M_I/AAAAAAAAKG0/Ymsb-yAYtX0/s640/darthmantis.jpg is kuhlii kuhlii

 

[happy1892]

yes there are two subspecies. I'm fairly certain kuhlii kuhlii is the one with the darker coloration and kuhlii asiatica has the lighter colors. for example, this: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1723/parablephariskuhlii3.jpg is most likely kuhlii asiatica, and this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l-0vfJzoyFI/TQTyYU12M_I/AAAAAAAAKG0/Ymsb-yAYtX0/s640/darthmantis.jpg is kuhlii kuhlii

Ha! Nice! More pictures. Okay, then this one is Parablepharis kuhlii kuhlii? It has a lighter color than the very dark one in your link but still dark.

 

[brancsikia339]

Ha! Nice! More pictures. Okay, then this one is Parablepharis kuhlii kuhlii? It has a lighter color than the very dark one in your link but still dark.

Yes that looks like kuhlii kuhlii, just with a lighter coloration.

 

[Christian]

Forget the colors, for God's sake. P. k. asiatica has the wider pronotum in both sexes.

 

[brancsikia339]

Forget the colors, for God's sake. P. k. asiatica has the wider pronotum in both sexes.

Well yea, but colors help a little bit. Like this is P. k. asiatica: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1723/parablephariskuhlii3.jpg It is lighter colored than the one with the thinner protonum, P. k. kuhlii

 

[MantidLord]

Are they Japanese?

 

[happy1892]

Forget the colors, for God's sake. P. k. asiatica has the wider pronotum in both sexes.

Okay. The thorax of the P. k. kuhlii reminds me of a tank and the asiatica looks like a leaf to me.

Are they Japanese?

No, I do not think so. You mean the mantis right?

 

[MantidLord]

Yeah the mantis, just wondering. Thanks, where exactly are they from?

 

[brancsikia339]

India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Borneo, and Java

 

[hierodula]

maybe ill search for some if I go to India (if its possible with all the stuff goin on lol)

 

[Mime454]

What does blepharis mean? It's in a few mantis names.

 

[brancsikia339]

Appparently it comes from the greek word Blepharon, meaning eyelid

 

[happy1892]

Maybe the Parablepharis kuhlii kuhlii live in China too. Here, look at the "Note" thingys.

http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1026