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African mantis

Sphodromantis

Description:

The Ghana mantis is a relatively large, sturdily built Mantis. It has a triangular, large head and an elongated prothorax. Complex between the eye and the antenna on both sides of a so-called secondary eyes hump rises, for example, in the lack of the similar type Hierodula.

Habitat:

Bushland

Notes:

Picture from home bred animal.

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15 Comments

Benno Ibold
Benno Ibold 9 years ago

Thank you all. I have bread them for 15 years.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 9 years ago

great shot!

Great shot!

outsidegirl0
outsidegirl0 10 years ago

i love the 1 pic great shot!

dotun55
dotun55 10 years ago

Great mantis macro! You may want to see a similar spotting from Nigeria >> [http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19317462]

Josh Asel
Josh Asel 10 years ago

Beautiful.

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 10 years ago

Great shot and creature Bennol

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

absolutely wonderful !

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

Colorful mantis! Great found!

Subin S
Subin S 10 years ago

Great Shot!!

Telse
Telse 10 years ago

Sweet! Great shot, BennoIbold!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 10 years ago

Wow!

ira080808
ira080808 10 years ago

great shot!

suzmonk
suzmonk 10 years ago

Yikes!!! Good job, man!

Caleb Steindel
Caleb Steindel 10 years ago

spectacular!!!!!!!!

Benno Ibold
Spotted by
Benno Ibold

Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana

Spotted on Feb 26, 2011
Submitted on Jul 28, 2013

Spotted for Mission

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