Australian Striped Mantid
Ellura
Australian Green Mantid
Adult S3
 
                      
Australian Striped Mantid (Orthodera marginata)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Mantises (Mantodea)
Family: Praying Mantis (Mantidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Australian Striped Mantid (Orthodera marginata)
This Photo:     
Other name: Green Mantid

Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying and Ethan Beaver for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We thought this was Orthodera gracilis.
Matthew & Ethan Beaver, another expert who has helped us out tremendously, wrote a paper to resolve this genus.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 14-Apr-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.