Green Mallee Mantis: Female, profile

Green Mallee Mantis (Trachymantis dentifrons)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Mantises (Mantodea)

Family:

Praying Mantis (Mantidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Green Mallee Mantis (Trachymantis dentifrons)

This Photo:

🔍Female, profile🔎

Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Female, ~65mm long
She didn't settle until we released her in the Melaleuca, then got some better shots; particularly of the blueness of the inside front legs. As well as the blue tinge on her back/front of her wings.
Found the one female specimen in April

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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