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Amorphoscelis ?tuberculata
a small cryptically coloured mantid about 20mm long.
attracted by lights, by small village community in semi arid, sub tropical, bushveld area
I'm wondering about the genus Oxypiloidea in the Hymenopididae ??
Spotted on Mar 6, 2013
Submitted on Mar 24, 2013
4 Comments
Thank you again Mr Goldfish, your ref certainly looks very close and the distribution would seem to fit
Maybe a Amorphoscelidae.
Similar to the picture of Amorphoscelis tuberculata from here: http://mantids.de/3.html
And here.
http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/b...
I think so too but I can't work out which mantid family it belongs to. It looks very like the picture of Oxypiloidea in the SA insect book but I don't see any teeth on the prothorax; I don't recall the antennae vibrating obviously either. The Tarachodes in the Mantidae would appear to be generally larger than this little fellow.
Looks like small Bark Mantid.