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Otomantis sp.
Size: roughly 1 cm. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate to each other. When boxer matises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying the patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing member of the same species from eating each other.
Seen at a small forest near a farm.
Spotted on Dec 13, 2013
Submitted on Mar 6, 2014
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Wild Things, Otomantis is the Mantis Genus of Middle America and South Africa, its not found in India.!!!