Breeding group came!

Just got a package today with a breeding group well 2

got 8 Pandinus imperator and 4 Hadogens paucidens
going to sex the imps soon but the Hadogenes is 2.2
allso got 1.0 cavimanus hoping to find him a mate soon
allso got 2.1 mantis going to id them soon allso..


pictures incoming soon

Nice! I'm gonna get a male cavimanus and try to breed them.

Keep us posted!

mantis are nice.These are mine







sorry for the big pictures

cocogecko wrote:

mantis are nice.These are mine

That second one looks incredible. What species is that?

It's a ghost mantis . . . I forget the scientific name.

Kejser, that load of scorps sounds pretty cool. My emp breeding ambitions kind of tanked when my only female died.

first mantis is a Tenodera sinensis - chinese mantis and the second one is a phyllocrania paradoxa - ghost mantis.
chinese is female and looks heavily gravid, and the ghost looks to be a mature male but its difficult to tell without a shot of the abdomen

Thanks for the info I used to have a female H. membranacea (The Giant Asian mantis) which I really liked. Might get into mantids again once the PhD's finished...

_scorpio_ wrote:

first mantis is a Tenodera sinensis - chinese mantis and the second one is a phyllocrania paradoxa - ghost mantis.
chinese is female and looks heavily gravid, and the ghost looks to be a mature male but its difficult to tell without a shot of the abdomen

its not a chinese mantis, its a taiwan flower mantis(acromantis formosana).Its only about 4cm lol.Chinese mantis get to about 10 cm.

cocogecko wrote:

_scorpio_ wrote:

first mantis is a Tenodera sinensis - chinese mantis and the second one is a phyllocrania paradoxa - ghost mantis.
chinese is female and looks heavily gravid, and the ghost looks to be a mature male but its difficult to tell without a shot of the abdomen

its not a chinese mantis, its a taiwan flower mantis(acromantis formosana).Its only about 4cm lol.Chinese mantis get to about 10 cm.

im not convinced...
flower mantis: http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/images_1/20051125_356.jpg
chinese mantis: http://www.cirrusimage.com/Mantids/Chinese_mantis_09.jpg

they look the same except for size... i dunno.

Please, make a separate thread if you're going to talk about something that's not relative to the OP's post; AKA "thread-jacking."

Thank you

yup, thats the one I showed!Its really a taiwan flower mantis.I raised it from L2 and its butt was sticking up.Chinese mantis nymphs butts dont stick up!

oops, sorry bjaeger

sorry brandon...