Oz

[BOHAN]

Hi everyone, does any one know of any nice, large, Australian mantid species.I could well be going there in a few months and would like to be fully armed, so to speak, as to what there are and were to find e'm to photograph etc.Any info would be better than what i've got.

thanx Bohan.

[Insectchat]

I believe the Hierodula Mujuscasa is from Oz, but that is the only species I aware of. Although, if you go to Queensland, you can find some Extatosoma, and bring those back :D I would love to see some wild caught specimens.
Of course, my address is always open to post ;)

[BOHAN]

Hi Ian, yeah i've heard of that one, i know of Archmantis latistyla & monstrousa and a large purple winged Tenodera sp [australasis??] but i dont know the areas they come from, or indeed the area we're going [probably queensland area] i particularily would like to find out about a mantis i read about years ago called Heirodula wernerii, apparently, from what i read, it is supposed to prefer larger foods eg vertibrates like treefrogs, gecko's etc not that i could bring myself to feed these or similar items to them, but i would be interested in seeing all these different types of mantis wernerii especially, just trying to gather info really.

thanx again Bohan,

[Insectchat]

Yea, for sure. Lets hope you get some nice shots...and if you find some ootheca, collect them!

[BOHAN]

Actually i've just found a site under Australian mantids on the net, and there are hundreds of them.It says what they are and were they can be found.Some look like real monsters too. cheers.

[Insectchat]

Nice, want to post the link?

[BOHAN]

I would if i new how to.Its the australian faunal directory or thats the title i find it under.sorry i cant be of any more help.

[smasch]

Hello,

here a geman site you can find species with the country. must go "Verbreitung" than you see on the ground the countries:

http://www.mantisonline.de/deutsch/index.html

hope is ok.

Bye Sascha

[Insectchat]

Ahh yea, that is a great site.
Thanks Sascha!

[BOHAN]

Hi all, I can only echo Ians response, brilliant, thanks Sascha.

[smasch]

Thanks ! :o
Sascha