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Asian Bark Mantis

Theopompa sp.

Description:

A very cryptic praying mantis of Sulawesi. About 7 cm long and 1.5 cm wide.

Habitat:

Remnant old forest near a city. Gunung Tumpa.

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4 Comments

travellingchez
travellingchez 11 years ago

Hi John I know what you mean about the difficulty finding local missions. I've taken to looking at what missions other people that I see in Indonesia have included their pictures under. Shame you can't just search Indonesia and all the missions show up. Oh well I'm sure it's something that will improve in the future :)

JohnTasirin
JohnTasirin 11 years ago

Thank you "ForestDragon" for the comment. They are very useful links. And "travelingchez", it is a great mission. I am joining in. Too bad it is hard to search for a local mission in projectnoah.org. I hope it will be more flexible and reliable. Don't get me wrong. I like and thank projectnoah as it is at the moment.

travellingchez
travellingchez 11 years ago

Wow what great colourings.
If you are interested I've started a mission to document the wide variety of insects that Indonesia has to offer. http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1773...

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

John, this is an awesome mantid! It looks like something from Genus Theopompa. Perhaps Theopompa servillei. I'm not positive on that though. Apparently it is variable in color and pattern. Here are some web links that might help:
http://www.ukmantisforums.co.uk/blogs/mr...
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/sp...
http://www.fotoinsekt.de/gota120.htm (not in English but the image looks the closest to yours)

JohnTasirin
Spotted by
JohnTasirin

Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia

Spotted on Dec 18, 2012
Submitted on Dec 18, 2012

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