Dear Colleagues,
From this National Nature Park I got several perfect photos of aposematic and camouflage signs of insects and some of them are identified due to help of specialists over RG site. So, due to yours kind help I moved with my manual-book in Biotsenology enough good.
Shown mantis photo was made in top afternoon when no any shadows, so possibly one of 30 photos is useful...
Andrey
Hi Andrey:
Your very nice photograph belongs to Gonypeta brigittae, the thai bark mantis.
Hey,
judging on the location I would end up with Gonypeta brigittae Kaltenbach, 1994, too. But the wings are longer, than I would have expected it for this species.
Best regards
Yeah, Thies,
for Mantodea like a lot of Orthoptera length of wings is not so important...
Dear Andrey,
indeed, the wing lenght of various orthopterous species might be variable (for example Asceles spp. (Phasmatodea)). But for Gonypeta brigittae the lenght of the alae is mentioned in the description (Kaltenberg 1994), for the differentiation of G. brigittae and G. borneana Giglio-Tos 1915. Therefore an identification with the key (if done on a male; of course for females, as in the picture, everything could be different again) would lead to G. borneana, which is, as far as I know, not reported for that area. That's why I mentioned that.
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