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Wow! Amazing colors, a preganant adult female of Chloromiopteryx. Beautiful!
It is Acontista indeed, family Acontistidae. An adult female, beautiful colors!
An adult female Photina
A subadult female of Parastagmatoptera, the raimbow mantis. It has this spotted body when young, and develops great colors when adult (pinks, reds, blues, yellows and greens). They are one of the few genera in which females can also fly.
Amazing! A pink variation of Photina, young male. He probably lost this color when molting to adult. Never seen one that kept colors, they always turn green again.
Just to add on Andre's ID, this is the male of Chloromiopteryx, way different than the females. They are the only known fully green Thespidae (and not Mantidae)., reason why they've got this name. Endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest.
This is a young female Photina, the common green mantis. Beautiful picture! They are so cute and camouflage as leaf sprouts.
Young male of Pseudovates. You can identify them by the curvy legs and black spot on the inner part of their raptorials.
A full-grown male of Pseudovates. Amazing colors they have! This specific guy was formely put on Phyllovates genus, which doesn't exist anymore.
This is a pregnant female of Chloromiopteryx. They belong to the Thespidae family, in which females are wingless. Easy to confound as nymphs.
