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Spotting

Description:

A small praying manis (only around 2 cm from top to bottom) with intricate patterns of differing shades of brown, grey and black. Perfectly camouflaged as a leaf with rough edges and flattened and elongated body parts.

Habitat:

Found around the lights in our home.

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2 Comments

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 9 years ago

Great find! Please consider adding this to the global Mantid mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...

JacobHeights
JacobHeights 9 years ago

Looks like a sophisticated type of praying mantis. Very cool

JessicaSA
Spotted by
JessicaSA

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Spotted on May 26, 2014
Submitted on May 26, 2014

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