Australian Striped Mantid | Australian Green Mantid Nymph S4, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Mantises (Mantodea) | ||||
Family: | Praying Mantis (Mantidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Australian Green Mantid (Orthodera ministralis) | ||||
This Photo: | Adult S3 | ||||
Other name: | Garden Mantid | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors & (CesDaMess) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Riverland and elsewhere The nymph we found at Ellura (S4) was ~33mm long, the adult in the Adelaide (S3) Hills only ~35mm, so the nymph was close to adult size. Matthew Connors said "You can sex any mantis of any age by counting the segments on the underside of the abdomen - males have 8 and females have 6 (can sometimes look like 7)" | |||||
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