#empusa pennata

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MEDITERRANEAN CONEHEAD MANTIS OR EMPUSA PENNATA FOR DAY TWO LETS GOOOO

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Conehead praying mantis (Empusa pennata), photo taken by Marta Albareda.

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Mediterranean conehead mantis, Empusa pennata, Empusidae

Photographed in France by Bernard DuPont

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Conehead Mantis (Empusa pennata), family Empusidae, Portugal

photograph by Frank Vassen 

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Some sketches of Insect au spy!

He's a Empusa pennata, better known as the conehead mantis.

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Conehead Mantis (Empusa pennata), family Empusidae, Spain photograph by Marta Albareda

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🔥 A very colourful praying mantis (Empusa pennata)

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obsessed with that orchid mantis you reblogged actually, i thought they were usually mostly white but wow. They're just so cool. Have you ever seen the vid of a construction equipment thing and the mantis? I think you'd enjoy it. It thinks it can fight a crane or whatever. total mantis move

Oh, actually that isn't an orchid mantis! Orchid mantises (Hymenopus coronatus) have a shorter body and a very smooth appearance, with distinctive tall pointy eyes and legs that look like flower petals. They do come in pink though, and they're very very pretty when they are!

But I looked around for information on the mantis in that video, and I'm pretty sure its one from the Empusa genus. Possibly Empusa pennata, aka the Mediterranean Conehead Mantis, though I can't say for sure as I don't know where the video was taken and I'm not a mantis expert lol. It's also very likely a nymph, not an adult; afaik mantises usually can't curl their abdomen up like that when they're adults, because their long wings get in the way.

These mantises also come in several different colours, but I think they look particularly stunning in pink.

Here's some more photos I found of them being gorgeous!

However I have not seen the video you mentioned and it sounds delightful. Mantises are so FIGHT ME all the time, I love them lmao. PLEASE send it to me if you have a link.

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The conehead mantis (empusa pennata)

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Empusa pennata, или розовый конусоголовый богомол. Его можно найти в Португалии, Испании, на юге Франции, Италии и на средиземноморском побережье Марокко, Алжира, Ту��иса, Ливии и Египта. Уникальный вид, очень редко встречающийся в дикой природе.

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Empusa pennata

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Conehead Mantis (Empusa pennata), family Empusidae, Spain

photograph by Marta Albareda (@malbafont_macrophotography)

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An Empusa Pennata invited itself :

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I swear to god, every time I look at a mantis I am stricken all over again by a feeling of “Why does this animal look so human”

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Empusa pennata

Trancoso/Portugal (14/06/2020)

[Nikon D500; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Flash Metz 48 AF-1]