Welcome to my website and thanks for visiting
This site is a working progress, so please check back to see the progress that I'm making with my mantids.
I will be updating the species diary and breeding diary regularly along with new pictures being added to the species pages as they moult and grow into adulthood.
I am still fascinated by this insect and have been keeping them for over 5 years now. I have now been able to breed several species and rear mantids that I have bred myself. This hobby does take up quite a bit of time but so long as I enjoy it this doesn't bother me.
I am going to start using the IGM number for each of the species that I keep, this method of identification is mostly employed by German hobbyists at the moment but I think it should be used by more people. I think it will save lots of confusion with common names and provides more detailed information about the origin of the species in the hobby
Here is a list of the species that I am currently keeping:
15 Deroplatys desiccata - Dead leaf mantis
53 Popa spurca crassa - African twig mantis
tbc Creobroter pictipennis - Indian flower
mantis
18 Deroplatys trigonodera - Dead
leaf mantis tbc Odontomantis.sp tbc Stagmomantis
carolina - Carolina mantis 141 Acontista.sp 176 Omomantis zebrata 153 Acontista multicolor tbc Miomantis.sp (Congo) tbc Theopropus elegans -
Banded flower mantis tbc Gonatista grisea
- Florida bark mantis 72 Pnigomantis medioconstricta - Double shelid mantis 67
Brunneria borealis
10 Phyllocrania paradoxa Ghost mantis
12 Creobroter gemmatus Indian flower mantis
Polyspilota aeruginosa Marbled mantis
Otomatis.sp Box er mantis
9 Blepharopsis mendica - Thistle mantis
93 Ephestiasula pictipes - Purple boxer mantis
Mantis religiosa - European mantis
tbc Pseudovates arizonae - Arizona Unicorn mantis
16 Deroplatys lobata - Dead leaf mantis
123 Acromantis formosana - Taiwan flower mantis
164 Sphodromantis aurea (formerly-Alalomantis coxalis - Congo green mantis)
98 Tenodera.sp -
tbc Empusa fasciata -
tbc Idolomorpha lateralis -
142 Hierodula salomonsi
- Jade mantis109 Hestiasula brunneriana - India unicorn boxer mantis
149 Phasmomantis sumichrasti - Mexican bush mantis
tbc Phyllovates chlorophaea - Texas unicorn mantis
tbc Tarachodes.sp
143 Thesportia graminis
Species that I have bred
Hierodula membrancea - 2nd generation
Gongylus Gongylodes - 3nd generation
Idolomantis diabolica - 2nd generation
Statilia maculata - 1st generation
Phyllocrania paradoxa - 1st generation
Acromantis formosana - 1st generationSphodromantis aurea /Alalomantis coxalis - 1st generation
Pseudocreobotra Wahlbergii - 1st generation
Creobroter gemmatus - 1st generation
Pseudovates arizonae - 1st generation
Ephestiasula pictipes - 1st generation
Pseudogalepsus sp - 1st generation
Creobroter pictipennis - 1st generation
Parasphendale affinis - 1st generation
Euchomenella Sp - 1st generation
Pnigomantis
medioconstricta -1st generation
Odontomantis sp - 1st generation
Sybilla pretiosa - 1st generation
Hymenopus coronatus - 1st generation