Dead Leaf Mantis (Deroplatys
lobata)
| Taxonomy: |
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| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Sub-Phylum: |
Tracheata |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Sub-Class: |
Pterygota |
| Super-Order: |
Dictyoptera |
| Order: |
Mantodea |
| Family: |
Mantidae |
| Sub-Family: |
Deroplatyinae |
| Genus: |
Deroplatys |
| Species: |
lobata |
| Year: |
1838 |
| Distribution: |
Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Thailand, Malay. |
Diet: Babies eat flightless fruit flies, pinhead
crickets, and other small insects. Adults eat crickets,
moths, flies, flour worms, and other large insects.
Female nymph, two molts away from becoming an adult.
Adult female.
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