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Common Green Mantid And Prey

Sphodromantis Gastrica

Description:

This girl and I go way back, I saved her from being closed in our neighbours gate and put here in the climbing grape we have in our garden where she has made a home. Today I managed to catch here at lunch on a shield bug. Presents as a large vivid green mantis and a large abdomen (female). Strong fore limbs indicative of the mantis have demonstrated their versatility and lethality in this predator / prey series.

Habitat:

Common in gardens and wooded areas of the Cape

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2 Comments

Michael Strydom
Michael Strydom 8 years ago

Thanks Grace Miller, I updated the spotting. I did not use the Eastern Assassin bugs mission as Mantids are not assassin bugs although they make great 'assassins' :) . Assassin bugs belong to the Hemiptera Order (True Bugs) in the family Reduviidae and are so named because almost all are predatory and ambush their prey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae...

Mantids are in an order all of their own, Mantodea.

Grace M.
Grace M. 8 years ago

This could go under the Interactions Between Different Arthropods mission, and the Eastern Assassin Bugs mission.


Michael Strydom
Spotted by
Michael Strydom

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Spotted on Mar 14, 2016
Submitted on Mar 14, 2016

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