Micro Mantis

[Reptiliatus]

Hey everyone!

Being in Israel has given me the opportunity to identify and find many different mantis species! A week ago I found my 2nd species (first one being my sphodromantis viridis) a very, very small Ameles heldreichi nymph !

Just thought I'd share a little video of this one eating a baby lobster roach.

Enjoy! Dayyan (Reptiliatus Channel)

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[zonbonzovi]

I dig the pronounced eyes & unlike some mantid keepers, like the sandy, brown coloration.

 

[Alejandro45]

wow beautiful little mantid..... I can really see the relation to grasshoppers in this one.

 

[Reptiliatus]

Thanks guys glad you enjoyed the video

 

[jebbewocky]

wow beautiful little mantid..... I can really see the relation to grasshoppers in this one.

Mantids and grasshoppers aren't closeley related at all. Mantids closest relatives are roaches and termites.

 

[Alejandro45]

BHHWWA? I thought grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and mantises belonged in the order Orthoptera??

 

[jebbewocky]

BHHWWA? I thought grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and mantises belonged in the order Orthoptera??

Mantids are of the order Mantodea.

 

[Bugs In Cyberspace]

That group of bugs can still be referred to as Orthopteroid, though the term is less favorable.

Great video of a species rarely discussed. I wonder how close that individual was to maturity??

Here's another "dwarf" mantis species I photographed a couple days ago. It's a Litaneutria sp. that we collected in Washington state last summer. Actually, it's the offspring of a female we collected.

 

[Reptiliatus]

That group of bugs can still be referred to as Orthopteroid, though the term is less favorable.

Great video of a species rarely discussed. I wonder how close that individual was to maturity??

Here's another "dwarf" mantis species I photographed a couple days ago. It's a Litaneutria sp. that we collected in Washington state last summer. Actually, it's the offspring of a female we collected.

Thanks!

Well to be honest I'm not sure what instar it was in but I would imagine this specimen was still quite young.

Wow thanks for sharing the image of the Litaneutria sp.!

Dayyan