Flower Mantis

Well that's another one cleared up and identified! Thanks all...

thank you Mr Goldfish! I will change it to your ID...Many thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_no...
Harpagomantis tricolour are from Africa. Creobroter live in India.
Harpagomantis tricolour are tiny, maybe thinner in width than your pinkie finger. Creobroter are larger but some species of Creobroter are kind of small. Yours in your picture is a nymph so it might be small.
Video of Creobroter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYNRxvJCV...
Harpagomantis tricolour pictures.
http://www.mantodeenforum.de/index.php?p...

I have 2 ID's for this flower Mantis, Harpagomantis tricolor and Creobroter. Any help would be gratefully accepted...

thanks Maria dB and oxyjack for your comments of a year ago that I have just now noticed! Sorry...

Sorry Ashish, someone just gave me a new ID for this mantis and I noticed your comment of a year ago. Not sure what Binomal ID means, and the link now longer seems relevant. Any comment?

Not Harpagomantis tricolour. I think it is Creobroter.

Pam.. This is Binomial ID...
http://www.gurdersmantis.com/harpagomant...

your patience paid off!

Yes, this is a flower mantis. Instead of looking like leaves to camouflage their presence, they look like flowers. Orchid mimicking mantids are a good example. http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/article...

praying mantis are of many colors and sizes.

yaa , but those called common praying mantis.

thanks Vishu, but aren't praying mantis green, and bigger?

Fantástico...