What species is this?

[garin33]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-LIVE-COLOR-CHANGING-RAINBOW-PRAYING-MANTIS-INSECT-from-mantis-egg-10-12-/281028144370?pt=Educational_Toys_US&hash=item416e952cf2&nma=true&si=IcPd5p8J0xoZ0VihqrmaIS2ClGM%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I happen to see this completed ad on Ebay and was wondering what domestic species that is.

Thanks for any input.

 

[agent A]

Stagmomantis limbata

 

[garin33]

Thanks Alex,

What do you think of that description? Is it accurate? Sky blue, orange?

 

[Paradoxica]

What a deceptive way to sell a mantis! They make it look like it is a color changing chameleon.

 

[garin33]

What a deceptive way to sell a mantis! They make it look like it is a color changing chameleon.

yeah, i agree.

Does it really change to that many different colors after molts?

Nice to meet another So Cal member by the way.

 

[agent A]

Thanks Alex,

What do you think of that description? Is it accurate? Sky blue, orange?

Those r just the wings lolCalifornicas r nicer tempered and have cooler colors

 

[garin33]

Those r just the wings lol

Californicas r nicer tempered and have cooler colors

ok, because he mentions on the ad that the color changes with every molt.

I can't believe he lied! haha

 

[agent A]

ok, because he mentions on the ad that the color changes with every molt.

I can't believe he lied! haha

californica r like that but this is deffo a limbata

 

[Rick]

Well if they are talking about the one in the picture it isn't going to molt anymore so that's not true. And a color change at every molt is not guaranteed. Very misleading ad and very overpriced mantis.

 

[Ntsees]

Native to the U.S.? Yes. Native to Tennessee? Nope. People sure do come up with strange names for a mantid that already have a common name: the bordered mantid.

 

[agent A]

Native to the U.S.? Yes. Native to Tennessee? Nope. People sure do come up with strange names for a mantid that already have a common name: the bordered mantid.

limbata live on the west coast <_<

 

[Ntsees]

limbata live on the west coast <_<

Yeah, I know. I forgot to mention that. I was making a comment to the ebay advertisement.