0037: Common Stick Mantid
Archimantis sobrina
Little Sandy Desert, WA
0038: Boxing Ground Mantis
Paraoxypilus tasmaniensis
Perth, WA


  MANTODEA
(Australian Praying Mantids - Mantidae)
 
  Most Mantids employ camouflage for 2 reasons – to avoid predation by larger creatures and to assist predation by allowing prey to unknowingly venture within the grasp of those deadly front legs. Australia has a relatively small continental fauna comprising around 170 species.


9 more species available in the collection