Hymenopodidae

Nymph

Dorsal. Specimen ID: 4564454. Field no.: LopeMAN14-078. Taxon rep.: Pseudocreobotra ocellata. Image quality: 2. Aspect ratio: 1.502.

Dorsal. Specimen ID: 4564452. Field no.: LopeMAN14-076. Taxon rep.: Anasigerpes bifasciata. Image quality: 2. Aspect ratio: 1.502.

Dorsal..

A medium-sized praying mantis perfectly evolved to be a master of camouflage. Body consist of different shades of green to camouflage it better in it's natural habitat, mosses. Even it's body contains irregularities on the thorax and abdomen to blend in with it's surrounding.It also has unique eyes as seen in this photo. However, it's camouflage is quite useless when I found it on the dining hall floor where it feeds on the nocturnal insects attracted to the artificial light. A leftover of an ant alate is seen in it's claw.Thank you Dracus for it's ID.Name: Mantodae > Liturgusidae > Majangella moultoniSize: 55mm (length)Location: Dining hall, MBSC, Maliau Basin, Tawau, Sabah.Date: 11 November 2012Time: 7:30 pm

Lower Sabie Camp, Kruger NP, SOUTH AFRICA

Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi (Eyed-flower Mantid, Mantodea) on an inflorescence of Coptosperma littorale (Rubiaceae) in the dunes close to Xai-Xai, southern Mozambique.

Lower Sabie Camp, Kruger NP, SOUTH AFRICA

Thanks to Evgeny Shcherbakov for ID

Jewelled Flower Mantis (Creobroter gemmatus)Photo available free for noncommercial use. Please contact me for details on using any of my images commercially or otherwise, either via flickr or on my website www.zpyder.co.ukFor commercial uses please contact me for details or request a getty images license.

Sepilok NP, Sabah, MALAYSIAScanned slide from 2001

Lower Sabie Camp, Kruger NP, SOUTH AFRICA

Botanic Trail, Mulu NP, Sarawak, MALAYSIA

An unusual, red-eyed flower mantis in central Sumatra.

Thanks to Gerry and Joseph K Green for ID

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: The original 1890 drawings of the flower mantis Parymenopus davisoni by James Wood-Mason (1846-1893) published in the Annals and magazine of natural history to accompany the type description of the species. Date 1890 Source http://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof651890lond#page/n553/mode/2up Author James Wood-Mason

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Photographed at the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden (Chiang Mai Province, Thailand) in March Date 9 March 2011, 18:54:41 Source http://Gardenology.org Author Raffi Kojian Permission (Reusing this file) See attribution information

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI Orchid mantis nymph Date 30 December 2014, 08:04 Source Orchid mantis nymph Author Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia Camera location 9° 08′ 13.67″ N, 98° 37′ 56.04″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 9.137130; 98.632232

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: A Pseudocreobotra ocellata nymph Deutsch: Eine Nymphe von Pseudocreobotra ocellata Date 28 August 2008 Source [1] Author Bill Bouton

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: A Sibylla pretiosa mantis attracted by artificial light in Terminalia sericea woodland, Seringveld, Pretoria Date 3 November 2012, 19:54 Source Own work Author JMK

DescriptionAPI Hestiasula brunneriana English: Hestiasula_brunneriana Français : Hestiasula_brunneriana Date 11 November 2008 Source own work www.lucnix.be Nikon case D300 optical Sigma 150mm F2,8 Macro Author Luc Viatour Permission (Reusing this file) This image is the work of Luc Viatour Please credit it with: Luc Viatour / https://Lucnix.be in the immediate vicinity of the image. A link to my website https://lucnix.be is much appreciated but not mandatory. An email to Viatour Luc would be appreciated too. Do not copy this image illegally by ignoring the terms of the license below, as it is not in the public domain. If you would like special permission to use, license, or purchase the image please contact me Viatour Luc to negotiate terms. More free pictures in my personal gallery I, Luc Viatour, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: I, Luc Viatour This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license. Attribution: I, Luc Viatour https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0 CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5-2.0-1.0 truetrue You may select the license of your choice.