Australian Green Mantid
Nymph S4, Wing Stubs
Grass Mantid
S1, Female, dorsal
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| Australian Green Mantid Nymph S4, Wing Stubs | | Grass Mantid S1, Female, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | 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: | Nymph S1, Inside Front Leg | 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)" He later said "You can differentiate this from O. marginatus by the thicker pronotum and the inside of the forearm coluration is different".
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