Tropidomantis!

[TheBeesKnees]

I disappeared into the jungle again, and found this lass!

I'll try getting better photos of her tomorrow when there is daylight, but I am a little excited to have found her!
A few months ago, I was first acquainted with this species for a fleeting moment when an adult landed on me. At the time, it really confused me, because I immediately assumed it was a lacewing. And then I spotted the raptorials, considered that I might be seeing things, and it took off as quickly as it had come. After that, I just assumed it couldn't have been a mantis, and that it must have been a mantidfly or something. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I found out there's actually a species of mantis around these parts which look very much like a lacewing! And now I'm lucky enough to have brought home a subadult

This is a relatively small but very beautiful species, and so I am excited for her to acquire her lacy, transparent wings!

 

[PlayingMantis]

Wow, awesome! I wonder what species she is. Folks living in the tropical areas are so lucky to enjoy such a great diversity of mantids. I am lucky to find anything other than a T. sinensis around here (of course, nothing against T. sinensis ).

 

[dlemmings]

How Wonderful!!!

 

[MandellaMandy123]

Beautiful! I want to move to Thailand. :lol:

 

[TheBeesKnees]

hehe tell me about it! Before I moved here, I lived in canada, where the only mantis I ever once chanced upon was a fat M. religiosa on Manitoulin Island (And I'm still convinced she was an escaped pet).
And now I'm driving my fiance crazy because I keep bringing home more mantids than we have space for, and I keep insisting that we must get more terrariums every time I bring a new one home heheheh. I can't help it, I'm like a kid in a candy store here!! (I also brought home a Tenodera last night, too!)

As promised, here are some cleaner shots for this little girl!

 

[Sticky]

I love her eyes! And the stripe on her back is really beautiful.