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Mantodea

Description:

A bit over 10 cm mantid. Clear green, brownish eye-colour and some blue dot on the inside of the forelimbs.

Habitat:

Sitting on a man made sigh in Magadzavane logde, rain season. Mixed forest, lubombo region. Altitude: 543.799 m latitude/longitude: -26.316624, 31.990292

Notes:

This mantid was one out of two my sharped eyed brother found, just before the rain started to fall, and the whole family had to take cover inside :)

1 Species ID Suggestions

srimanta
srimanta 10 years ago
the mantises or preying mantis
Mantis religiosa Mantis


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5 Comments

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

Thank you RiekoS :) And Saumya, I think that he is quite cute too... I think we are a bit "different" compared to "others" :D

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

Cutieeeeee !

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Beautiful shot.

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

Thank you for the comment and your ID contribution Srimanta. Let us hope that we can find a more detailed ID on this one, that would be very interesting.

Have a great day :)

srimanta
srimanta 10 years ago

excellent captured.....regards.... :)Sri

Tiz
Spotted by
Tiz

Sifundza seLubombo, Swaziland

Spotted on Dec 26, 2013
Submitted on Jan 4, 2014

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