Help me Id this mantis

[Richlard]

Pics below

 

[Richlard]

Can you all help me find out what this is the lady at the pet store said she thinks it’s a histirix but there’s some others that look similar

 

[Hadla]

Need a close up pic that’s not too blurry to id... how big is he?

 

[Richlard]

Need a close up pic that’s not too blurry to id... how big is he?

He is about one inch and I can try to get a more close up shot but it might not get better than those

 

[Tamberav]

did you check the mural spots? What do those look like?

 

[Hadla]

Do you happen to know where he came from? That would help to narrow down species

 

[Richlard]

Need a close up pic that’s not too blurry to id... how big is he?

 

[Richlard]

Do you happen to know where he came from? That would help to narrow down species

I do not

 

[Richlard]

did you check the mural spots? What do those look like?

This may be a dumb question but how does one check that

 

[Tamberav]

This may be a dumb question but how does one check that

This is the spot... on the smashers. Mantis colors are highly variable and can change just on depth of where its living so to ID... you need to look for distinguishing characteristics.

Hystrix has large pink eyes. Does yours have pink eyes? like this?

The spot. Not all of these have distinguished spots though.

Probably need to click through this list one by one and see if any of the distinguishing characteristics match.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/index.html

 

[Richlard]

This is the spot... on the smashers. Mantis colors are highly variable and can change just on depth of where its living so to ID... you need to look for distinguishing characteristics.

Hystrix has large pink eyes. Does yours have pink eyes? like this?

The spot. Not all of these have distinguished spots though.

Probably need to click through this list one by one and see if any of the distinguishing characteristics match.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/index.html

So the eyes are more of a dim orange and there is no spot on his arms and I will look through the list again