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Mantodae: Brown Mantids
Species: Statilia ssp.
(ID credit:Kay Boehmer)
   
   
Not often seen. Smallish
Tapah Hills, Perak, Malaysia

 


Mantodae: Flower Mantids or Orchid Mantids
Species: Hymenopus Coronatus
Adult Juvenile
 
   
Well-known all over the world
They are wingless
This insect resembles the petals of orchids
Able to jump well
where it sits motionless to await its prey
        Tapah Hills,Perak,Malaysia
Males are very small
 
Colours range from white to pink
 
When first hatched from ootheca, the
 
babies are red with black legs
 
        Tapah Hills,Perak,Malaysia

 

Mantodae:Flower mantids
Species:Hymenopus coronatus
   
 
 
Different views of this remarkable species
Tapah Hills,Perak,Malaysia.

 

Mantodae: Praying mantis
Species: Deroplatys Truncata
 
   
 
   
Rather rare. Female
 
Colours range from light brown to black
 
Resemble dead leaves as camouflage
 
Carnivorous
 
Tapah Hills, Perak, Malaysia