Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter
Project Noah

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Purple-winged Mantis

Tenodera australasiae

Spotting Image 1
  • photo 1
  • photo

Description:

Nymph stage - no wings

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

Lindsay111
Lindsay111 11 years ago

Thanks for that!

Noah Ranger
ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

Nice find Lindsey! This is a nymph since it doesn't yet have wings. With that long body, I wonder if this is Tenodera australasiae, Purple-winged Mantis:
http://eol.org/pages/2943815/overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenodera_au...

Sign in to comment
Lindsay111
Spotted by
Lindsay111

4507, Queensland, Australia

Spotted on Nov 17, 2012
Submitted on Jan 8, 2013

Related Spottings

Tenodera Praying mantis Praying Mantis Chinese Mantis

Nearby Spottings

Scarlet Jezebel Emu tracks Angular Pigface Goat's Foot Convolvulus
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team